From: "B Lauber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] [alsa] driver error Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 17:50:34 -0500
From: "B Lauber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] [alsa] driver error Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 17:04:55 -0500
The snd-via82xx module causes my system to hard lock at boot time. If I switch to the oss-equivalent sound driver ( via82cxxx_audio ), my system boots just fine.
BTW, My sound card is a ‎VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio].
If anyone has any idea why this driver would cause my system to hard lock, I would be very thankful for the input. I would like to use the alsa drivers because they appear to be designed with software suspend in mind (at least, that's the way it appears from parsing the suspend scripts).
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I just wanted to give an update on the status of this problem. Apparently, the driver is configured wrongly during installation by drakx. As I stated above, I instead installed the oss equivalent driver and was able to successfully get through the system install. If I go back later and change the driver back to the alsa driver using draksound, then the driver is reconfigured perfectly. Thus, I now have sound via alsa.
So for me, this is no longer a problem; for new users, the drakx installer needs to be corrected so that this driver is correctly configured (it would be discouraging to Linux newbies if their system hardlocked on the first boot).
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Now I have one more quick update and a question:
I have been able to get the alsa driver to successfully suspend and recover if I set the following flags in /etc/sysconfig/suspend:
RESTORE_SOUND="yes" SOUND_MODULES="sb uart401 sound soundcore maestro cs4281
If RESTORE_SOUND="no" , then only the left sound channel recovers from a suspend (even then, this channel sounds like it has experienced an upward pitch shift). The only problem with setting RESTORE_SOUND="yes" is that it causes the gnome Control Volume applet to die when I reenter xfree86. Since this is sorta annoying, I'd like to be able to just get rid of the applet and instead configure some laptop function keys to control my volume. Does anyone know how I would go about doing this?
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