Larry, Great! I'll remind ya Tuesday. That's a good excuse to attend the clinic. I can bring CDs if there is a machine to copy with, or my machine and CDs.
Thanks again, Dave --- Larry Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 __________________________________________________ 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
