On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Arnie Metz wrote:
> I've got 4 situations:
>
> I'm running RH 6.1 on a 400mhz Intel machine.
> It has a sound blaster card in it. And I'm not sure which one.
> May not matter for this. You tell me.
>
> 1. Sound:
> As far as I can tell there is a driver loading when the machine boots.
> It scrolls by pretty fast so I can't read it.
At the console or in an xterm window use the command `dmesg` to review the boot
up message. If your term window doesn't have a scroll back, pipe it into the
`more` command like so:
`dmesg | more`
> When I run X I can't seem get any sound out of it. Is something turned
> off or not configured or what. Basic question is how do I trouble shoot
> this. Externally everything is plugged in, power is on, volume is up.
> 2. CD: (somewhat related to 1.)
> I tried running the CD player and I get nothing; however when I hit the
> eject button on the CD player in X it will eject the CD. I assumed from
> there that the CD is working OK. But again there is no sound.
Do you have any wavs or mp3s. Try getting your sound card to work first, then
get your cd-rom to work with the sound card, IMHO that is the easied way to get
it working.
Did you load a driver for it? Try OSS, is has allot of sound drivers and
should support your Sound Blaters card if it isn't support by the kernel
directly. http://www.opensound.com
There is also a playing sound and sound howto under /usr/doc or at
http://www.linuxdoc.org
Sorry, I am not to good at sound unless I am directly infront of the machine..
>
> 3. Mouse:
> When I open the terminal emulator in X and have the mouse pointer in the
> window, if I touch the keyboard I get long streaky lines (look like
> noise lines) about an inch wide from the bottom of the terminal window
> to the bottom of the screen. If I hold a any key they will follow the
> mouse until it leaves that window and reappear when the mouse goes back
> in. I haven't seen it in any other windows. What do you make of that?
Ouch, not really sure exactly what this is. I am guessing a bad or
misconfigured X server? Does it happen in other X programs or just xterm?
What video card and X server are you using?
>
> Finally
> 4. When the machine boots. I get a message dev/hda1 not unmounted
> cleanly.
> After almost a minute (when the generic status meter goes all the way
> across the screen) it reports passed and continues to load whatever is
> left. After that its business as usual.
> I was a blurb on a web page somewhere that suggested that it wasn't shut
> down properly. How do I fix it?
>
> Thanks
> Arnie
Yea, you can't just hit the power switch on the computer when running Linux,
this is a very bad thing, either use 'Ctrl-Alt-Del' the `shutdown` or `reboot`
command.
man shutdown; man reboot
If you are shutting down the machine properly, IMHO would try forcing an fsck on
the drive.
If it is your root drive, you will have to boot into Single user
mode with a differant root drive. I am not famlair with Red Hat, but SuSE 6.3
when booted from the second CD-ROM has a 'resuce mode' which just basically
boots of the cd and mounts a ram disk. Red Hat should have something simlair,
it could be a resuce boot floppy or something like that, but make sure it
doesn't mount your root drive when it starts. If Red Hat doesn't have anything
like this you can grab small linux and boot from floppy then mount a second
floppy as your root directory.
After you have a 'clean' booted system without /any/ of the hard disks mounted
run fsck with the force option (-f) and the verbose option (-v) on the drives
giving you the error messages the reboot.
man fsck; man e2fsck
As always get a second opinion, take with a few grains of salt and also use at
your own risk.
Jack
