Slackware 10 & 2.6.7 & DropLine - freeze

pete_bogg · 11-19-2004, 03:12 PM

I am having the same problem getting dropline to start.

Here are some exerpts that I posted on the Dropline Forum:

Quote:

I just installed dropline-gnome 2.8. I get the nice login screen and am able to log into kde and blackbox sessions, but not a gnome session.

Since I am using Slackware 10 with kernel 2.4.26, I chmod 644 rc.hal and rc.dbus. (I did this in KDE.)

When logging into gnome, I get the grey-blue screen with the dropline gnome pop-up with the star in the middle. The first icon at the bottom of this pop-up appears, but I never get to the second or third icon. I go back to the login sreen. This never happened prior to DL.

For some reason, I think there may be an alsa issue, however, I have sound in my KDE session. The reason for this is some via_sound errors during startup, which goes by too fast, but doesn't appear when I dmesg.

(I had some problem getting hydrogen working because it could not get the sound server started. This was before installing DL.)

Alsaconf seems to work OK, at least it tells me that the sound levels are set and the sound is ready to use.

ANYWAY, does anyone know how I can get a gnome session going?

and

Quote:

Just tried $ aplay, and got the following:

aplay: main:507: audio open error: No such device

I read in another forum about the same problem as mine, they think that it may be a ogg/alsa error.

Questions: Does KDE use arts instead of alsa? How does one tell which driver is running?

BTW: Here is the output of the last part of # alsaconf, after it confirms that it configured snd-via82xx and wrote to /etc/modules.conf: (I think the program call is rcalsasound start)

Loading driver...
Loading ALSA mixer settings: /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
/usr/sbin/alsactl: load_state:1134: No soundcards found...
Loading OSS compatibility modules for ALSA.
Setting default volumes...

=================================================

Now ALSA is ready to use.
For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

Have a lot of fun!

I hope this helps to understand my problem.

rutty · 11-19-2004, 06:35 PM

Pete, I think you and I have similar problems. We both need to (re)install the alsa packages.

There are some instructions here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=235122

I've just installed the 2.6.7 kernel and will be going for the alsa package installation very shortly

pete_bogg · 11-19-2004, 08:11 PM

I should not need to reinstall alsa, as it installed from the Slackware 10 disks.

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Here is what I found, so far:

1)# alsamixer

Quote:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No Such Device

I googled this line and found some information at http://alsa.opensource.org/index.php...roubleShooting.

2) # lsmod

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
snd-pcm-oss            37736   0  (unused)
snd-pcm                56072   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-timer              13604   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc          6328   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-mixer-oss          12504   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
ppp_deflate             3256   0  (autoclean)
zlib_deflate           18328   0  (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
bsd_comp                4344   0  (autoclean)
ppp_async               7392   1  (autoclean)
ppp_generic            19492   3  (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]
slhc                    4976   1  (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
hsfbasic2              95948   2  (autoclean)
hsfserial              22900   2  (autoclean)
hsfengine             869292   0  (autoclean) [hsfserial]
hsfosspec              21856   1  (autoclean) [hsfbasic2 hsfserial hsfengine]
fglrx                 179080   8
snd                    30852   7  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mixer-oss]
ide-scsi                9328   0
via82cxxx_audio        19324   1
ac97_codec             12084   0  [via82cxxx_audio]
soundcore               3396   2  [snd via82cxxx_audio]
usb-storage            66176   0  (unused)
usb-uhci               22256   0  (unused)
usbcore                59308   0  [usb-storage usb-uhci]
agpgart                43940   0  (unused)
plip                    9864   0  (unused)
lp                      6724   0
parport_pc             14788   2
parport                23336   2  [plip lp parport_pc]
apm                     9580   2

3) # chmod 666 /dev/snd/*

4) # less /proc/asound/cards

Quote:

--- no soundcards ---

5) # lspci | egrep audio

Quote:

00:04.5 Multimedia audiocontroller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)

---
Rebooted
---

6) # lsmod

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
ppp_deflate             3256   0 (autoclean)
zlib_deflate           18328   0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
bsd_comp                4344   0 (autoclean)
ppp_async               7392   1 (autoclean)
ppp_generic            19492   3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]
slhc                    4976   1 (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
hsfbasic2              95948   2 (autoclean)
hsfserial              22900   2 (autoclean)
hsfengine             869292   0 (autoclean) [hsfserial]
hsfosspec              21856   1 (autoclean) [hsfbasic2 hsfserial hsfengine]
fglrx                 179080   8
snd                    30852   4 (autoclean)
ide-scsi                9328   0
via82cxxx_audio        19324   0
ac97_codec             12084   0 [via82cxxx_audio]
soundcore               3396   2 [snd via82cxxx_audio]
usb-storage            66176   0 (unused)
usb-uhci               22256   0 (unused)
usbcore                59308   0 [usb-storage usb-uhci]
agpgart                43940   0 (unused)
plip                    9864   0 (unused)
lp                      6724   0
parport_pc             14788   2
parport                23336   2 [plip lp parport_pc]
apm                     9580   2

7) # alsaconf

8) # alsamixer

--> see output of 1)

9) # lsmod

--> see output of 2)

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I hope someone has a clue why I cannot get alsa to start from the above.

pete_bogg · 11-20-2004, 08:41 AM

I # modprobe snd-via82xx and got the following:

Quote:

/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via82xx.o.gz: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via82xx.o.gz: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via82xx.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via82xx.o.gz failed
/lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via82xx.o.gz: insmod snd-via82xx failed

I think this is important in finding our solution. I tried to watch the startup information and noticed that, at least, the first line was there also.

rutty · 11-20-2004, 09:14 AM

Interesting. I've just reinstalled Slackware 10.0 and kept it at the 2.4.26 kernel (been having trouble upgrading to 2.6.7). I installed dropline just as you did, and it works OK

I've got the same family of motherboard as you. Here's my lsmod output:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
nvidia               3205624   6  (autoclean)
snd-pcm-oss            37736   0
snd-mixer-oss          12504   3  [snd-pcm-oss]
8139too                14376   1
mii                     2272   0  [8139too]
crc32                   2880   0  [8139too]
uhci                   24444   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd               17580   0  (unused)
usbcore                59308   1  [uhci ehci-hcd]
snd-via82xx            13124   4
gameport                1420   0  [snd-via82xx]
snd-pcm                56072   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx]
snd-timer              13604   0  [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec         49500   0  [snd-via82xx]
snd-page-alloc          6328   0  [snd-via82xx snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart         3200   0  [snd-via82xx]
snd-rawmidi            12740   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device          3888   0  [snd-rawmidi]
snd                    30852   1  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore               3396   4  [snd]
pcmcia_core            39972   0
ntfs                   51424   1  (autoclean)
ide-scsi                9328   0
agpgart                43940   3

I'm not sure if that helps. Also here's my /etc/modules.conf:

Code:

# cat /etc/modules.conf

# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.5 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

alias char-major-195 nvidia

alsa configures OK for me, and all I've done is the standard full Slackware install with the bare.i kernel

If you need me to check anything out to compare just let me know - dropline does look very nice. It broke my nVidia driver on installation but I was able to reinstall it once I removed the module.