On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Jack Barnett wrote about, Re: Sound and CD:
> 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`
Good idea, but you can use shift-pageup to scrool back.
> > 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.
In my experiance most sound problems are caused by permissions, check to
see if a user has corect permissions on /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp and check
that the ./kde/share/sounds directory is accessable to a user.
>
> What video card and X server are you using?
Thats not the X-server but window manager that "could reboot the machine
without umounting drives, this has been discussed before check the
following;
F
or more information check out the archives at;
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/47/0
Use the search engine there to find a "Keyword"
Another good place for info;
http://www.linuxtopia.com
>
> >
> > 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?
If you cant exit X normaly try ctrl-alt-backspace thats the escape sequence.
> >
> > 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.
As above.
>
> man shutdown; man reboot
>
> If you are shutting down the machine properly, IMHO would try forcing an fsck on
> the drive.
If the machine is shutdown properly then there will be "NO" problem.
>
> 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.
I'm sure you mean filesystems mounted "ro" read-only. ??
But your concept of linux seems to be somewhat wrong, ALL distro's use the
linux kernel with fsck or e2fsck which works the same on ALL systems.
Maybe the person concerned could elaborate a little on just what his
problems are concerning his mose etc, as i am at a loss.
>
> 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
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