Soundcard probs and total novice - update - and only a minor problem now
OK - thanks to those who replied - you gave me some clues, and now I've got the soundcard working using OSS ensuring that the correct modules are used. Now the minor problem. I use an S99local file to insmod required modules (don't go suggesting that I compile my own kernel - last time I tried that I nearly trashed my system), which at the moment looks like this:- insmod usb-ohci insmod ac97 insmod ac97_codec insmod ac97_plugin_wm97xx insmod sound insmod i810_audio /usr/X11R6/bin/startx However - sound and i810_audio don't get inserted. If I open a console and do it manually after boot then there's no problem, and the sound works wonderfully after re-starting X (restarting the sound server doesn't do it). Any idea why these modules are still left out? Thanks. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soundcard probs and total novice - update - and only a minor problem now
Steve Hargreaves wrote: Now the minor problem. I use an S99local file to insmod required modules no need to do that... just add the modules you want to load into the file /etc/modules (no need for the insmod command) and the debian bootscripts will load them and their dependencies automagically. insmod usb-ohci insmod ac97 insmod ac97_codec insmod ac97_plugin_wm97xx insmod sound insmod i810_audio by the way, `man modprobe` is better than insmod. /usr/X11R6/bin/startx hmm... are you running your system as the root user all the time? if so, SERIOUSLY consider installing a user for yourself and set up a graphical login, such as gdm. apt-get install gdm should do the trick (you may need to satisfy dependencies... so use aptitude) However - sound and i810_audio don't get inserted. If I open a console and do it manually after boot then there's no problem, and the sound works wonderfully after re-starting X (restarting the sound server doesn't do it). Any idea why these modules are still left out? probably because their dependencies are not being met as you are using insmod. as i said... cat /etc/modules EOF usb-ohci ac97 ac97_codec ac97_plugin_wm97xx sound i810_audio EOF should do the trick. i'm even confident you don't need a lot of those module in the file. probably usb-ohci and ac97 will be enough... the bootscripts will calculate the dependencies for you. is sound even a module? i thought it was soundcore hope that helps! (i take it you are using OSS now as opposed to ALSA?) cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fhsst Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soundcard probs and total novice - update - and only a minor problem now
On Friday 06 February 2004 09:09 am, Steve Hargreaves wrote: OK - thanks to those who replied - you gave me some clues, and now I've got the soundcard working using OSS ensuring that the correct modules are used. Good. Now the minor problem. I use an S99local file to insmod required modules (don't go suggesting that I compile my own kernel - last time I tried that I nearly trashed my system), which at the moment looks like this:- [snipped] However - sound and i810_audio don't get inserted. If I open a console and do it manually after boot then there's no problem, and the sound works wonderfully after re-starting X (restarting the sound server doesn't do it). Try this instead: echo ac97_codec /etc/modules echo ac97_plugin_wm97xx /etc/modules echo i810_audio /etc/modules Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soundcard probs and total novice - update - and only a minor problem now
On Friday 06 February 2004 2:29 pm, Sam Halliday wrote: Thanks for the reply (and Adam, who gave similar advice). /usr/X11R6/bin/startx hmm... are you running your system as the root user all the time? if so, SERIOUSLY consider installing a user for yourself and set up a graphical login, such as gdm. Ahem - no - well, ATM, pretty much, but that's only while I get the system running properly. I use kde which brings up a login window - and I already have a user account set up. should do the trick. i'm even confident you don't need a lot of those module in the file. probably usb-ohci and ac97 will be enough... the bootscripts will calculate the dependencies for you. is sound even a module? i thought it was soundcore hope that helps! Well, I seem to have both, and from the list I presented, if I leave anything out - the soundcard doesn't work. Go figure :o/ (i take it you are using OSS now as opposed to ALSA?) Oh - yep - perhaps I should uninstall ALSA now - thanks for reminding me :o) OK - I'll try a reboot and see how things work that way, now. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Soundcard probs and total novice - update - and only a minor problem now
Hello Steve Hargreaves ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: OK - thanks to those who replied - you gave me some clues, and now I've got the soundcard working using OSS ensuring that the correct modules are used. Now the minor problem. I use an S99local file to insmod required modules (don't go suggesting that I compile my own kernel - last time I tried that I nearly trashed my system), which at the moment looks like this:- insmod usb-ohci insmod ac97 insmod ac97_codec insmod ac97_plugin_wm97xx insmod sound insmod i810_audio /usr/X11R6/bin/startx However - sound and i810_audio don't get inserted. If I open a console and do it manually after boot then there's no problem, and the sound works wonderfully after re-starting X (restarting the sound server doesn't do it). First, don't use insmod, use modprobe. Modprobe will load needed modules ausotmatically. That means for example that you only have to modprobe i810_audio, the ac97 modules should be loaded because of denendencies. Take a look at /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.dep. Next, don't load modules in your own scripts, it is not necessary. Debian already has a script that does this for you: etc/rcS.d/S20modutils - ../init.d/modutils It will load modules listed in /etc/modules. So for you it should probably be sufficient to add the following lines to /etc/modules: usb-ohci i810_audio Alternatively, you can add the following line to /etc/modutils/aliases: alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio and run update-modules to save the changes to /etc/modules.conf. This will load the module when the sound device is accessed. And if you want to start XFree automatically, you can install some login manager like kdm (from KDE), gdm (from Gnome), wdm or xdm. They will start automatically at boot time, and at least kdm allows you also to configure automatic logins, if you want to use that. You should /not/ load startx from an initscript the way you do, because that starts XFree as root. You should start XFree from your user account. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
