[ale] Slackware 10.2 Makes me cry

[H. A. Story]

Yep,   Step one is where it all went down hill.


upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/glibc-solibs-*.tgz
** segment fault  **




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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