Three Questions from a Newbie

tenacious_b · 10-21-2003, 06:21 PM

I just got my new system working with Mandrake 9.1, but there are a few loose ends I need to tie up. Here are my three questions:

1) I installed the Nvidia drivers, and I assume they are working, because I now get the Nvidia splash screen when I log on. The only thing is, the Mandrake Hardware Configuration tool lists my video card as the Generic GeForce 4 drivers -- I have a GeForce FX 5200. When I installed the Nvidia drivers I changed the driver name in the XFree file to GeForce FX 5200 instead of generic, but it's not even listed on the config tool. My question is, how do I know my new drivers are installed properly, and should I be concerned that it's listed as a generic driver?

2) My motherboard is a Gigabyte 7NPRO 2 which comes with on-board audio and gigabyte lan. When I first installed Mandrake I would get a Kernal Panic at boot time when the network card was being initialized. So I took an old network card I had and plugged it into the system. Now, it boots up and the Internet works fine on my old ethernet card, but the gigabyte lan card still doesn't work. How do I get it to work?

3) I have a similar situation with my audio card as I do with my ethernet card, except I want to use my audio card instead of the built-in audio. I can get audio out when I connect my speakers to the audio card, but when I disable AC97 in my bios I can't get any sound. This leads me to think that my audio is being controlled by the on-board audio chip, but just sending the signal out my pci audio card. What's going on here?

I know I have a lot of questions, but I've searched a lot for the answers to my questions and can't find the info I need. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
tenacious_b

Peacedog · 10-21-2003, 07:01 PM

post the output of

cat /etc/modules.conf

you have to do this as root.

kilgoretrout · 10-21-2003, 07:19 PM

For question 1, don't sweat it; I had the same problem with 9.1. When 9.1 came out last spring, the FX series cards were just coming out. They just didn't have time to put a separate listing for it in the mandrake graphics card selection section so it defaults to what you've got. If you installed the right driver, you'll be fine; the nvidia installer automatically detects what card you have even if the mandrake tools haven't caught up.

tenacious_b · 10-21-2003, 07:31 PM

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Originally posted by kilgoretrout
For question 1, don't sweat it; I had the same problem with 9.1. When 9.1 came out last spring, the FX series cards were just coming out. They just didn't have time to put a separate listing for it in the mandrake graphics card selection section so it defaults to what you've got. If you installed the right driver, you'll be fine; the nvidia installer automatically detects what card you have even if the mandrake tools haven't caught up.

Cool. I figured it was using the right driver because I got the Nvidia splash screen which I didn't get before.

Is it possible that my on-board sound card is sending sound out my pci sound card? I doubt that is happening, but I want to make sure I get the most out of my soundcard. I had problems with XMMS crashing/hanging and I thought that maybe it was due to not using the sound card. BTW, I have a Hercules Fortissimo III sound card.

tenacious_b · 10-21-2003, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by PEACEDOG
post the output of

cat /etc/modules.conf

you have to do this as root.

Here it is:

above snd-cs46xx snd-pcm-oss
probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias eth0 8139too
alias sound-slot-0 cs46xx
probeall usb-interface usb-ohci ehci-hcd
alias eth1 r8169
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia
alias sound-slot-1 snd-cs46xx

Peacedog · 10-22-2003, 05:32 PM

as far as the sound goes it looks like the same module is loaded for the onboard as well as the pci card. what card do you have? i'm assuming onboard is ac97. i could be wrong but, i don't think the onboard chip can utilize the pci card. this is interesting. you might try commenting sound-slot-0, and then sound-slot-1 (1 at a time) to see what the results are.

magicvash · 10-23-2003, 12:47 AM

if you're not planning on using the onboard sound at all, you might want to save yourself the headache and just disable it in your BIOS or by setting a jumper on your mobo...though I belive most bios-es will let you disable onboard sound now so you shouldn't have to crack open that case...

tenacious_b · 10-23-2003, 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by magicvash
if you're not planning on using the onboard sound at all, you might want to save yourself the headache and just disable it in your BIOS or by setting a jumper on your mobo...though I belive most bios-es will let you disable onboard sound now so you shouldn't have to crack open that case...

I haven't seen a setting in my BIOS that will let me disable on-board sound, but I commented out the on-board sound and on-board ethernet port in my module.conf file and that disables them. Although, I never got my on-board gigabyte lan to work in the first place. I suppose I don't need it now, but one day I'd like to use that thing.

Now I just need to find out how to get my scanner working. I have a Canon Lide 30. For some reason it's not getting detected. I think there's a problem with my USB ports or something. Any ideas?

-Brad

magicvash · 10-23-2003, 12:00 PM

Check out the SANE scanner respository (or suppository? :P) It gives a list of scanners that are supported and are not supported

tenacious_b · 10-23-2003, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by magicvash
Check out the SANE scanner respository (or suppository? :P) It gives a list of scanners that are supported and are not supported

My scanner is supported, but it still isn't being detected. That's why I think it is a problem with my USB ports.

-Brad