Hi everyone.

I would love to show you the output of /var/log/syslog but unfortunately for some reason none of these boot errors got logged, so I will explain what I did.

I installed swaret, modified the version in swaret.conf = current, and did a "swaret --update" then a "swaret --upgrade".

Next I included the kernel by editing swaret.conf again.

I ran "swaret --upgrade" followed by "lilo"

Well now when I boot a few pages of "insmod failed...." errors scroll by. Here are couple odd lines from my syslog... but there is a LOT more than this that scrolls by on boot.

23 19:31:22 WinchenbachS-1 kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
Apr 23 19:31:22 WinchenbachS-1 last message repeated 2 times

and
23 19:32:19 WinchenbachS-1 dialog: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory
Apr 23 19:32:25 WinchenbachS-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-134

If you have any advice as to what I did wrong, or how to get it to log the entire boot process it would be appreciated. Thanks in advance,

Sam

To get output from boot process, you should run dmesg (preferably soon after you boot).

You can pipe it to a file. eg.:

...to save it in a file called my_dmesg_output.txt.

Ok.. I didn't see the error when I ran dmesg, so I rebooted and looked at
the error again. It turns out it was the same module that what failing over
and over again (.../drivers/net/irda/via-ircc.o.gz - any idea what this is?)
so I added that to the blacklist. That took care of that problem... while
I was at it I also commented out the section of rc.M that loads the PCMCIA
stuff.. because that was giving a error as well. Another problem fixed.
Now I have the following problems remaing:

===== On Boot =====
Apr 23 22:11:03 WinchenbachS-1 kernel: kmod: failed to exec
/sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
Apr 23 22:11:03 WinchenbachS-1 last message repeated 2 times

Apr 23 22:11:03 WinchenbachS-1 kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
Apr 23 22:11:03 WinchenbachS-1 last message repeated 2 times

Apr 23 22:11:03 WinchenbachS-1 kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod
0x45e/0x47) is not claimed by any active driver.

Apr 23 22:46:20 WinchenbachS-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-10-134
Apr 23 23:23:48 WinchenbachS-1 dialog: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or
directory
Apr 23 23:23:53 WinchenbachS-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-10-134
Apr 23 23:25:59 WinchenbachS-1 dialog: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or
directory
Apr 23 23:26:03 WinchenbachS-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-10-134
Apr 23 23:26:50 WinchenbachS-1 dialog: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or
directory
Apr 23 23:26:54 WinchenbachS-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-10-134
Apr 23 23:27:33 WinchenbachS-1 dialog: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or
directory
Apr 23 23:27:38 WinchenbachS-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-10-134
Apr 23 23:28:02 WinchenbachS-1 dialog: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or
directory
Apr 23 23:28:08 WinchenbachS-1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-10-134
Apr 23 23:35:39 WinchenbachS-1 dialog: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or
directory
Apr 23 23:36:12 WinchenbachS-1 dhcpcd[313]: terminating on signal 15

===== Problems With X =====
1) If I run x as root, the sound works fine. If I run x as a normal user I
get an error saying I don't have permission.

2) If I run x as a regular user and do a "glxinfo" X quits and gives this in
the log:

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting


When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org.

(II) RADEON(0): Wrote: rd=8, fd=77, pd=2


3) I get the following errors in X log:

_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/WinchenbachS-1:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing
from list!
*** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
*** be the reason for the server aborting.


(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/".
Entry deleted from font path.
(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/").

(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)

(WW) RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum

Lots of messages like this (I dont think they are bad... just probing to see
what resolutions are supported):
(WW) (1600x1200,MAG XJ810) mode clock 202.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 200MHz


Thanks for the help!

Sam

What kernel version are you using anyway? Naming your kernel without including its version is not recommended, it can get confusing when you have a few kernels around and all of them are named Winchenbach-Something.

For your sound issue, try chmod 777 /dev/dsp as root.

I'm not sure about your Radeon issues though, my nvidia card works flawlessly under Linux

Once you provide your kernel version, perhaps I could help with your APM/ACPI issues.

That is just the host name... something the school does.

Code:

root@WinchenbachS-1:~# uname -a
Linux WinchenbachS-1 2.4.26 #6 Wed Apr 14 16:31:11 PDT 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

So I am using Kernel 2.4.26

Quote:

For your sound issue, try chmod 777 /dev/dsp as root.

Hmm, I dont think that is it.

Code:

root@WinchenbachS-1:~# ls -l /dev/dsp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 Apr 23 17:37 /dev/dsp -> dsp0

Quote:

I'm not sure about your Radeon issues though, my nvidia card works flawlessly under Linux Once you provide your kernel version, perhaps I could help with your APM/ACPI issues.

Yeah, I have a TNT2 Ultra in my other box... nvidia did a really good job on their driver... I like it a lot, and it is easy to install. I wish ATI would release a driver for X 4.4.0