I have a copy of Suse Pro 8.1 that I'd be willing to loan or copy remind me (tuesday) before next wednesdays clinic and I'll make sure I bring it with me that day.
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Dave Wyatt wrote: > Anyone using SuSE 8.1? > > The reason I ask is because I have found 8.1 to be > easy to install and it found and *correctly* installed > the on-board VIA sound of a Shuttle MV42N motherboard. > RedHat 8.0, Mandrake 9.0 and Debian 3.0 (even Knoppix) > had no such success. > > I discovered this with the SuSE 8.1 Live Evaluation CD > so I did a FTP install of SuSE 8.1 (while I still had > my cable connection). All went very well and I have > had an excellent working system for a couple of months > ... until I tried to improve the update system with > fou4s (fast online update 4 SuSE). > > Since I had to give up my cable connection and revert > to dialup I thought this would speed things up, and it > did... considerably. > > However (there's always a however), after installing > fou4s and trying my first update (which failed because > the installed versions were not what the updates > expected??) the sound has quit working. There are no > error messages when the sound modules are installed at > boot up or at anytime for that matter. Just no sound. > I have checked the volume settings and tried a lot of > things to get sound but I have not been successful. It > appears that alsa, oss and arts are all installed. > Could one be defeating another resulting in no sound? > > > Here is part of lsmod: > > linux:/home/dave # lsmod > Module Size Used by Not tainted > snd-seq-oss 27296 0 (autoclean) > snd-seq-midi-event 2920 0 (autoclean) > [snd-seq-oss] > snd-seq 37776 2 (autoclean) > [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] > snd-seq-device 4140 0 (autoclean) > [snd-seq-oss snd-seq] > snd-pcm-oss 44928 0 (autoclean) > snd-mixer-oss 12728 1 (autoclean) > [snd-pcm-oss] > isa-pnp 29664 0 (unused) > snd-via8233 6380 1 > snd-pcm 63328 0 [snd-pcm-oss > snd-via8233] > snd-timer 11524 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] > snd-ac97-codec 26628 0 [snd-via8233] > snd 31300 0 [snd-seq-oss > snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-seq-device snd-pcm-oss > snd-mixer-oss snd-via8233 snd-pcm snd-timer > snd-ac97-codec] > soundcore 3396 0 [snd] > > I really just want to get the sound working again. > Any ideas? > > I would like to just boot with the live eval CD just > to make sure it WILL still work (it does fine in > windows), but the one I had was on a CD-RW and I have > overwritten it. With dialup I have little chance of > downloading the live eval ISO again, and downloading > the ftp directories for a hard disk install is > something I can only think about. > > Does anyone have the live eval CD or ISO I could copy? > > BTW, I have a spare 6GB hd (I hope that would be > enough room) to hold the ftp directories if someone is > willing to donate the bandwidth and time for such a > xfer. I can bring my machine or just the HD if > someone is willing. I am unemployed right now so *I* > have lots of time but no $ or I would just buy the > SuSE Personal Edition. > > TIA, > Dave > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
