On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 16:08, B Lauber wrote: > >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). > >> > >>_________________________________________________________________ > >>MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* > >>http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > >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). > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > 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?
On my laptop the same "system" of volume control works as in the manual for me it's fn-f5 and then the left and right arrow keys. Have you tried to do it this way... IOW the way the manual says? > > _________________________________________________________________ > > >
