problems remain after a 2.6.11.6 kernel build

linuxhippy · 04-07-2005, 06:47 PM

Yet another kernel problem!

I'm having difficulty getting the 2.6.X kernels to work right on my Compaq K6 1270 laptop that has a mere 96 MB of RAM (6 years old). I specify in menumake that I have an ESS1938 soundcarcd and pick some other ESS and Creative cards for good measure.

My biggest problem is sound. I run alsaconf and it finds my ESS card and sets it up to work in mplayer only. It doesn't work in XMMS or with the CLI play command. I also don't here the pc beep from console when there's an error or when my PCMCIA card is detected at boot. I've built the 2.6.X kernels several times and always have this problem along with a video problem with the man pages (read here how to fix that but then my DSL doesn't get configured).

Should I re-build the kernel again? What do I change in make menuconfig?

I get the following error on the end of a boot (ALSA is configured):

Loading ALSA mixer settings: /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
Loading OSS compatibility modules for ALSA.
FATAL: Module snd_pcm_oss not found.

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I also found these in dmesg:

Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
Device 'i823650' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed.
Badness in device_release at drivers/base/core.c:85
[<c018beb3>] kobject_cleanup+0x83/0x90
[<c018bec0>] kobject_release+0x0/0x10
[<c018c813>] kref_put+0x33/0x80
[<c018bee6>] kobject_put+0x16/0x20
[<c018bec0>] kobject_release+0x0/0x10
[<c690b2a6>] init_i82365+0x176/0x18d [i82365]
[<c0127f42>] sys_init_module+0x122/0x1b0
[<c0102277>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
.................
.............
............
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
mtrr: no more MTRRs available

shilo · 04-07-2005, 07:17 PM

Quote:

I run alsaconf and it finds my ESS card

So ALSA works and you got the right driver for it in the kernel (or as a kernel module)

Quote:

and sets it up to work in mplayer only

Which seems to indicate that mplayer is configured for ALSA

Quote:

It doesn't work in XMMS or with the CLI play command.

SOLUTION #1

Set xmms to output to ALSA and use aplay to output to alsa from the CLI.

So it seems most likely that you did not configure a few things right in your kernel.

Recompile

When you get to sound, choose just about everything under ALSA.

The thing I hate the most about giving kernel compile instructions is that it is hard to get across to people which options to choose. THis should help, though:

This should Match:

Code:

#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=m

#
# Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
#
CONFIG_SND=m
CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m
# CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY is not set
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=m
# CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is not set
# CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not set

THis won't match, but gives you an idea what it should look like:

Code:

#
# PCI devices
#
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m
# CONFIG_SND_ALI5451 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ATIIXP is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ATIIXP_MODEM is not set
# CONFIG_SND_AU8810 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_AU8820 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_AU8830 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_BT87X is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CS46XX is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CS4281 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1X is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CA0106 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_KORG1212 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_MIXART is not set
# CONFIG_SND_NM256 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_RME32 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_RME96 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_RME9652 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDSP is not set
# CONFIG_SND_TRIDENT is not set
# CONFIG_SND_YMFPCI is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ALS4000 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CMIPCI is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ENS1370 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ENS1371 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ES1938 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ES1968 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_MAESTRO3 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_FM801 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ICE1712 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ICE1724 is not set
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m
# CONFIG_SND_SONICVIBES is not set
# CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX is not set
# CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX_MODEM is not set
# CONFIG_SND_VX222 is not set

Do you have ISA interface cards? if not, get rid of the ISA plug & play to eliminate the next message.

The ipv6 error doesn't matter. You can disable ipv6 if you want, but it doesn't matter.

Get all that working and see what errors you have left.

Brian1 · 04-07-2005, 07:43 PM

For beep do a ' modprobe pcspkr ' If not there then needs to compiled in.

Brian1
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linuxhippy · 04-08-2005, 04:30 PM

Great-looks like my sound problems are all fixed with the above advice. I changed the output device to alsa in xmms and aplay works nicely (didn't know I had that). I rebuilt the kernel with all the alsa modules and checked the other sound boxes that were mentioned. I also saw that pcspeaker had been compiled as a module, so I changed that to be built into the kernel instead.

Somehow I did something to the kernel that disabled my DSL/eth0. Not sure what. I'm going to rebuild my kernel again-video problems remain.

Video problem I have is that the man pages won't display and that the terminal viewers don't appear in an X-session.

A couple weeks ago I did this:

Well, there is a problem viewing man-pages, seems to be in slackware.

But this could be corrected just by opening the file:
/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules

locating a line that looks like
KERNEL="tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="tty/s%n", SYMLINK="%k"

and if found change "tty/s%n" to "pty/s%n".

This worked to enable my man pages and terminal windows, but also disabled my PCMCIA NIC card from being configured.

How would I get both video an NIC to work?

linuxhippy · 04-09-2005, 06:44 AM

I tried the above for the video (changing tty to pty) and then rebooted. Now sound, video, and internet are all working together. Looks like I've got a working 2.6 kernel!!

Just one note-it took 5 hours to compile the 2.6.11.6 kernel and it takes about twice as long to boot then the 2.4.30 kernel which compiled with the needed alsa driver in under 3 hours. For a slow pc like I have (350 MHz), I'd say stick with the 2.4 kernels for now.