Yast won't configure sound card. (also, no boot splash )

halo14 · 12-19-2005, 09:22 AM

i have 10.0 on my laptop...and 2 problems i can't seem to fix...

first off, it doesn't display the splash while loading... I have tried to change grub vga= line to several things...incuding 0x318 and 792... this is a 1024x768 native TFT screen...

2nd thing is sound.. YAST tells me there is an error when laoding the module for my sound card.. but alsaconf on console loads it and works fine.. however, after reboot.. it's back to the same.. The error in YAST reads as follows:

"The kernel module snd-ali5451 for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters."

I hope someone can figure this one out... I asked aorund in the IRC channels with no help.. google was equally as helpful..

abisko00 · 12-20-2005, 02:52 AM

concerning splash:

changing the vga parameter in menu.lst requires to run mkinitrd as well. Only if a splashpicture of the correct resolution is included in initrd, the splashscreen will show up properly. 0x318 is the highest color depth, so you may want to try 0x317 or even 0x316 for better support by your card.

concering sound:

I don't know if this still applies to SUSE 10, but I sometimes could solve sound problems by running alsaconf from command-line (as root) instead of YaST.

halo14 · 12-20-2005, 07:25 AM

Update:

YAST keeps telling me that splash is not installed. i.e. - yast -> system -> runlevel services.. Splash is set to "Yes*"... if I try to disable it, and turn it back on, it errors and says that the program is not installed. I have removed it('bootsplash' via yast), and reinstalled it 4 times with the same results.

It's really not too big of an issue, but I would like the graphical boot...

P.S. - I was able to keep sound with 'alsactl store' after alsaconf loaded the module. I still don't know why yast was broken with it... but at least the sound is working.

iainr · 12-21-2005, 08:41 AM

I had a similar problem with sound not working on SuSE 10 after I upgraded. Running alsaconf fixed the problem, but my permanent fix was slightly different.

For some reason, "rcalsasound start" didn't do anything, but "rcalsasound restart" worked fine, so I amended the script to do a restart when start is called - now it works OK.

Code:

case "$1" in
#  start)
#       if [ -d /proc/asound ]; then
#           start_rest
#       fi
#        ;;
...
  reload|restart|start)
        $0 unload
...

Worked for me, anyway.