[ale] Slackware 10.2 Makes me cry

[Bob Toxen]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 02:21:06PM -0500, H. A. Story wrote:
> Yep,   Step one is where it all went down hill.

> upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/glibc-solibs-*.tgz
> ** segment fault  **
That's wrong.  Try:

tcsh
foreach i ( /root/slackware/a/glibc-solibs-*.tgz)
	upgradepkg $i
end

Bob Toxen
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> 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)
> >>
> >>Adrin