14.0: BIOS - OS conflict?
Hi: I have being doing a lot of posting here lately. Actually, the real problem behind all others is this: I bought a new machine. It comes with a disk with drivers for both Windows and Linux. For this machine I have downloaded and installed Slackware 14.0 for the first time. It is built around an Intel H61M-S1 chip, apart from the CPU. Its PCI Express. The drives, optical and magnetic (aka hard disk) are SATA. The machine bundled disk (DVD) then, I want to be able to use it when I want. But I can't. When inserted in the optical drive, the drive scans it for ever. The LED never stops. And I can't mount it. I have an older machine with slack 12.0 and here there is no problem. Even more, two linux live CDs I have boot but then the kernel object either the BIOS or the fs. This is then the problem. Although for the sake of brevity I won't say here how the others follow from this.
There are three variables: the hardware, the ROM BIOS (this is EHCI in fact) and the OS. There is some kind of incompatibility, I think. The disc is not a bootable one. It's meant to be loaded into the driver when one has the prompt. For Windows it has an AUTORUN and a run.exe. For linux it has directories and files that resemble those in the slack install disc. But whatever it has, it is an iso9660 disk. So, the system should mount it. As I said before, the disk is unobjectionable. The BIOS has some parameters unfamiliar to me, as the mode for SATA: IDE or EHCI. Any suggestion would be welcome. EDIT: I already know why I can't mount it. When I mount, it happens the same as when in windows I click on a DVD that has autorun! The linux tree on the DVD does that... if the OS had certain settings ok, I guess. |
You don't need the drivers from that disk, a Slackware 14 system should support all your hardware out of the box.
The BIOS should be set to AHCI so that all features of the harddisk and controller are supported. Regarding the live-CDs you mentioned, if you don't give us the exact error messages we won't be able to help with that. |
OK. All the hardware out of the box. With one exception, I think. The Intel ALC887 audio codec. This codec is the object of an infinite number of posts in the web, all about slackware and the codec.
The live CD: one is a Knoppix CD: Code:
BIOS bug, IO-APIC#0 ID 2 is already used!... The other a Linux from Scratch CD: Code:
I do not find an LFS CD file system. |
Support for the Realtek ALC887 (it is not an Intel device) was added with kernel 2.6.27, so it should work out of the box. Do you have audio problems?
Regarding the live-CDs, may it be that these are older versions that don't support your hardware? |
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alias snd-card-0 snd_hda_intel In short, at present the situation is this: alsa.conf is Code:
alias snd-card-0 snd_hda_intel I have read through the following: (a) .../Documentation/sound/alsa/ - There are four files which touch sound and ALSA. (b) /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/Sound-HOWTO (c) /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/Alsa-sound (d) /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/Sound-Playing-HOWTO But reading the slackwiki tutorial on ALSA, I have just thought that in alsa.conf, I should write TWO option lines (the system sees the builtin speaker as another card): one for the speaker and one for the sound card (which really is inside the Intel H61; the ALC887-VD is a codec), with say indexes 0 and 1. I'll try later. The live-CDs: yes, they are pretty old. |
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To the OP. You have new hardware. You need new linux software to test your box. |
Guys, if the CDs are too old, lets leave it there, if you please. As stated in the thread title and post #1 I'm running Slackware 14.0. I would prefer to focus attention in the audio problem described by me: Realtek ALC887-VD. I know I must doing something wrong, becuase here you assure with 14.0 it should be running out of the box (post #5).
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If you have audio problems, then you must make sure that ALSA is enabled and on bootup it prints out on the console which audio devices it finds and in which state they are.
However looking at your other threads I have a suspicion that there is something seriously wrong in your system. Couple of days ago there was another user complauining also about broken things and we found out that he/she had for example 151 items in /usr/sbin wher as I do have 470+ items in /usr/sbin with full Slackware 14 32-bit installation. |
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ls /usr/sbin | wc -l Reboot the machine. Try to run alsamixer and if you get any error messages post them here. |
Well, by far the main change is that I installed the package (sources) from Realtek. That is why the lines with the 'patch' word appears in the boot screen I show in my previous post.
So, I'll run the 'make uninstall' for that package and remove the alsa.conf and I'll let you know. |
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