[ale] Slackware 10.2 Makes me cry

[H. A. Story]

Well,  Actually when I try to compile the SND-1371 either into the 
kernel or as a module I get unrecognized symbols for midi.  I am 
currently running the 2.4.31 kernel.  I would be happy to get either 
sound card to work with alsa.  Currently alsaconf doesn't see either on 
board or the card.  Just noticed this though. only reason the card is in 
there is I am to lazy to take it out.  And I had at one time looped the 
sound card through a card on another PC input jack.  Messing around one 
day and thought I broke the port on the on board sound.  Then one day it 
started working.

via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11
via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11
via_audio: ignoring drain playback error -11

Video:  Well, there is a agpgart error on boot.  KDE works fine though. 
The error is about the agpgart.

agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT400 chipset
agpgart: unable to determine aperture size.

Lilo will let you change the screen size on boot.  When I recompiled the 
kernel I lost this settings and can't get it back.

Think that, If I keep playing with it and looking around I may get one 
to work and then the other.



Tejus Parikh wrote:

>Sounds a little like when I was trying to put my music server together.
>One of the first times I did a slackware upgrade, I mounted the cdrom
>and ran 'find /mnt/cdrom -iname "*.tgz" -exec upgradepkg {} \;'  That
>didn't work out so well.  
>
>Then I found this document:
>http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-10.1/UPGRADE.TXT
>
>I haven't had a major problem upgrading slackware since.
>Dropline-gnome, now that's another matter entirely.
>
>Ahhh, the 2.6 kernel, the Via Chipset, and an additional soundcard.
>This is a problem near and dear to my heart.  What happens when you
>enable the snd-1371 driver?  Which kernel version and are you doing the
>alsa version?   If you want the onboard to work you will need the
>snd-via82xx driver as well.  If you have optical out on that card and
>you want it to work you will probably need kernel 2.6.14.4 or newer.  I
>was never able to get it to work on some of the older 2.6 kernel.  You
>can use aplay -L to find out which is which.  There is a way to control
>which device alsa puts where, but I don't remember what it is.
>
>When you say video doesn't work "ideally," what do you mean?  It's
>probably just a configuration problem with X.  Most likely, you are
>using the default "vesa" driver instead of "ati".  
>
>--Tejus
>
>On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:21 -0500, H. A. Story wrote:
>  
>
>>Well,  I finally got my system back online.  Found out somethings. 
>>
>>make mrproper deletes a lot of stuff.
>>upgradepkg on glib*.tgz is  DANGEROUS!!!!!  It kill ls and everything.
>>
>>Doing the upgrade from disk 1.  If you do the quick format files are not 
>>removed.  And you end up with a nice mix.
>>
>>Kernel compiling will put you to sleep.
>>
>>A full system backup to a tar or gz file may not help you.  I had run a 
>>backup before hand. I couldn't gunzip the file and it was too large 
>>after booting from the distro CD.  Seems the distro bare.i doesn't like 
>>+2 Gigs files.
>>
>>When you screw up bad.  Having another image in lilo doesn't help. 
>>
>>My problem now seems to be sound and video.  I can't get ATI Radeon 9200 
>>to work ideally.  No errors during boot.   I can't seem to get the sound 
>>to work.  And I would like to get kernel 2.6.## loaded and working.
>>
>>Anyone else had problems like this?  I could take the easy way out and 
>>changed distro, but don't think that would be fun either.
>>Any suggestions on sound?  Notice 2 sound cards. When adding Ensoniq 
>>137? the kernel doesn't compile.
>>
>>Output of lspci00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 
>>[KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80)
>>00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
>>00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 04)
>>00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
>>Controller (rev 80)
>>00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
>>Controller (rev 80)
>>00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
>>Controller (rev 80)
>>00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
>>00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
>>00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
>>VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
>>00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. 
>>VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
>>00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] 
>>(rev 74)
>>00:13.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U (rev 01)
>>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 
>>9200 SE] (rev 01)
>>
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