[ale] Slackware 10.2 Makes me cry

Fri Feb 10 18:53:50 EST 2006

I will forward that to Slackware.  Just Kidding.  Looks like I have 
gotten almost everything working, even switch to kernel 2.6.13.  doing 
it my way and not Slackware's way.   Only thing I need to toy with is 
the sound.  Kernel sees both on boot, but alsaconf will not detect it.  
I am thinking about moving it back as a module to see what happens.   As 
it did work under a few compiling.   Maybe one day when I am bored I 
will turn things on and off then compile the kernel and see what happens.

I was really happy to get my scroll wheel working again.  That is 
something that is MISSED..

Adrin

Bob Toxen wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 02:21:06PM -0500, H. A. Story wrote:
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>>Yep,   Step one is where it all went down hill.
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>>upgradepkg /root/slackware/a/glibc-solibs-*.tgz
>>** segment fault  **
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>That's wrong.  Try:
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>tcsh
>foreach i ( /root/slackware/a/glibc-solibs-*.tgz)
>	upgradepkg $i
>end
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>>Tejus Parikh wrote:
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>>>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.  
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>>>Then I found this document:
>>>http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-10.1/UPGRADE.TXT
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>>>I haven't had a major problem upgrading slackware since.
>>>Dropline-gnome, now that's another matter entirely.
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>>>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.
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>>>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
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>>>On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:21 -0500, H. A. Story wrote:
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>>>>Well,  I finally got my system back online.  Found out somethings. 
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>>>>make mrproper deletes a lot of stuff.
>>>>upgradepkg on glib*.tgz is  DANGEROUS!!!!!  It kill ls and everything.
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>>>>Doing the upgrade from disk 1.  If you do the quick format files are not 
>>>>removed.  And you end up with a nice mix.
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>>>>Kernel compiling will put you to sleep.
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>>>>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.
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>>>>When you screw up bad.  Having another image in lilo doesn't help. 
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>>>>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
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