Big Update to Current Today 2016-01-13

bassplayer69 · 01-17-2016, 04:46 AM

I found one issue after PulseAudo was added. I have a Logitech K520 wireless keyboard mouse combination and before PulseAudio was added, when I pressed the sound mute button once, the sound was muted. I'd press it again and the sound was restored. After PulseAudio was installed, I can press the sound mute button once and the sound is muted. If I press it again to restore the sound, it does not work. The icon change back to show that the sound was restored, but it wasn't. I have to manually run the xfce audio mixer, select Playback: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo (PulseAudio Mixer) and click on the speaker button below the link button to restore sound.

Slackware64-Current multilib
Xfce Desktop Version 4.12

Update: after updating this morning with the latest changes, still the same.

cwizardone · 01-17-2016, 08:48 AM

That has not been a problem with my Logitech wireless keyboard.

bassplayer69 · 01-17-2016, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

That has not been a problem with my Logitech wireless keyboard.

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Drakeo · 01-17-2016, 02:09 PM

the gtk2mm I new that was coming for slackware 14.2 beta glad he did that Thanks Pat.

cwizardone · 01-17-2016, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by bassplayer69

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IF I had the solution I would have given it to you, but did think it might be a little bit worthwhile for you to know not everyone with a wireless keyboard has the same problem.
Your problem might be local or I have seen the multimedia keys work differently from application to application.

michelino · 01-17-2016, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by bassplayer69

I found one issue after PulseAudo was added. I have a Logitech K520 wireless keyboard mouse combination and before PulseAudio was added, when I pressed the sound mute button once, the sound was muted. I'd press it again and the sound was restored. After PulseAudio was installed, I can press the sound mute button once and the sound is muted. If I press it again to restore the sound, it does not work. The icon change back to show that the sound was restored, but it wasn't. I have to manually run the xfce audio mixer, select Playback: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo (PulseAudio Mixer) and click on the speaker button below the link button to restore sound.

Slackware64-Current multilib
Xfce Desktop Version 4.12

Update: after updating this morning with the latest changes, still the same.

Same problem here.
Kde5 (AlienBob's packages)

moesasji · 01-17-2016, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by michelino

Same problem here.
Kde5 (AlienBob's packages)

The same problem occurs for me also if I mute the sound using the GUI only, so it does not only get triggered by hardware keys.

btw) I did open a specific topic earlier this morning to flag this up as a potential bug: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ug-4175564162/

bassplayer69 · 01-18-2016, 06:46 AM

Another issue I found was that after the "big current" update, my printer stopped working and I had to re-install it using System -> Printer Settings (in xfce) by deleting the existing printer and re-adding it. It worked again after that. Printer is an Epson WorkForce-630 setup as a network printer (connected to the network via a network cable, not wireless).

gmgf · 01-18-2016, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

Yes, for a long time already. I am on my 3rd attempt at recompiling Qt5 now; first time consumed all of my 67 GB of free disk space and failed at the end; second try froze the virtual machine where I was building it.
Next round of Plasma 5 packages for -current should all come PA-enabled. When? As soon as my compile box stops breaking.

i Have recompiled qt5, with succes, but before I uninstall the old package.

Mol_Bolom · 01-18-2016, 12:31 PM

Ok, I got my wifi to work, now I am working on fixing the other issues.

Edit:
Nevermind. Had multiple instances of pulseaudio in memory.

Edit 2:
WM: echinus
Hibernate: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H (for running pm-hibernate in sudoers)
On reboot: DRI2 disabled, and other warnings in xorg.conf. Xorg extremely sluggish and slow when moving windows.
Exit, then restart xorg, fixes it. (Have to go now, but will try to look into this later).

By the way, if anyone knows how to fix the boot up screen.
The beginning of boot, the screen is terribly garbled, until what I guess is when the kms is set or i915 driver is loaded. I've added it via mkinitrd as well as modprobe.d/i915 "options i915 enable_rc6=1 enable_fbc=1 lvds_downclock=1". Thanks!

Pulseaudio: installed and reinstalled.

After installing some missing packages, I got it working until I rebooted. Now still having a few issues.

As root:

Code:

$ sh /etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio start
$ mpg123 10-26-15.mp3
[pulse.c:84] error: Failed to open pulse audio output: Access denied
Segmentation fault
$
$ pulseaudio --kill
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process
$ pulseaudio --start
$ mpg132 10-26-15.mp3
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
        version 1.22.4; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
        free software (LGPL) without any warranty but with best wishes

Playing MPEG stream 1 of 1: 10-26-15.mp3 ...

MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz stereo
Title:   The Pain                        Artist: Cat with Seven Toes

[0:01] Decoding of 10-26-15.mp3 finished.

As user:

Code:

$ alsamixer
ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Access denied
$ aplay 10-26-15.mp3
ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Access denied

aplay: main:722: audio open error: Connection refused


cannot open mixer: Connection refused

Pavucontrol doesn't have anything in its window unless I run it after pulseaudio --start as root.

Anyway, I'm having a bit of trouble finding information on this, but I'm still hunting...

music_man · 01-18-2016, 04:20 PM

Hi all -

I am running Slackware current (32bit) on a Dell Lattitude E7250 (I5 2.2 5200). The update itself went smoothly.

However, now when I resume from sleep (either by closing the lid, or selecting from the menu in XFCE or KDE), my wireless is turned off. Here is my lsmod (lsmod |grep -i dell) listing from kernel 4.1.15 (where it resumed properly):

dell_led 1900 1
dell_wmi 1926 0
sparse_keymap 2614 1 dell_wmi
dell_laptop 11271 0
rfkill 12814 4 cfg80211,dell_laptop
dcdbas 4359 1 dell_laptop
wmi 7067 2 dell_led,dell_wmi

And this is the lsmod listing with kernel 4.4

dell_led 2064 1
dell_wmi 2058 0
sparse_keymap 2746 1 dell_wmi
dell_smm_hwmon 5724 0
dell_laptop 13342 0
dcdbas 4551 1 dell_laptop
hwmon 2482 2 dell_smm_hwmon,coretemp
wmi 6758 2 dell_led,dell_wmi
dell_rbtn 3145 0
rfkill 13078 5 cfg80211,dell_rbtn,dell_laptop
video 22207 3 i915,dell_wmi,dell_laptop

In my case, it is a rfkill soft block as described in the first link below, plus a couple of related links.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=203404
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106031
https://www.mail-archive.com/platfor.../msg07570.html

Due to confusion in that first link, I did try to blacklist dell_rbtn (lsmod does not list dell-rbtn, although I tried to black list that as well) with no change in operation. However, I can reactivate the wireless with the appropriate Fn key combination. On the other hand, if I put the laptop to sleep with the lid, when I reopen the lid, the login screen displays within a couple of seconds without any input from me (before, I always had to give the mouse pad a swipe to get this displayed).

While it looks like this may be a kernel issue, does anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this?

Thank you in advance.

ryanpcmcquen · 01-18-2016, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

Installing the steamclient and its games does not change a bit, but with PulseAudio you should have lots less issues with your sound configuration (microphone in particular).
I have not tested it yet (I am at work and my computers still need to be updated with the latest -current) but I want to check out tonight how things have changed.

People who installed my steamclient package may want to remove these three lines from the /usr/bin/steam script. If that works then I have to release an updated package:

Code:

export LD_PRELOAD='"'"'/usr/$LIB/libasound.so.2'"'"'
# Audio output goes to first "hw" device of ALSA
export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa

Code:

#export LD_PRELOAD='/usr/$LIB/libasound.so.2'
# Audio output goes to first "hw" device of ALSA
#export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa

Commented those out and had no issues, some games I tried:

- Axiom Verge
- Borderlands 2
- Broken Age
- Half-Life
- Half-Life 2
- Spec Ops: The Line
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Looks like we may be in the clear. :^]

414N · 01-24-2016, 03:54 AM

I upgraded last night and I'm having a major issue: mouse is not working anymore, neither with GPM nor X.
I can see from dmesg that the device is indeed recognized as a /dev/input/xyz device, but nothing comes out of it.
Even forcibly loading the psmouse modules doesn't bring the mouse back to life.
I read somewhere that the mouse module is being reworked in the 4.5 kernel tree, but with the actual Slackware kernel I think that it should work as it always had.
Anyone else has this issue?
Ok, this is embarassing... I was almost to the point of meddling with the kernel configuration when, upon removing and reinserting the USB mouse receiver it started working again.
I still have no explanation as to why it wasn't working before, as it was never detached from the USB port during the upgrade process and it was working fine before. After the upgrade, the kernel still found the USB mouse receiver but it didn't work...