Dave,
I have suse 8.1, I like it (although I dont used it as much as slack...) Ive
done one or 2 updates since I installed it last summer, and I havnt had this
problem on this box yet.
I have however had simular problems as suse uses OSS, which is/was commercial
software, and compiled to only work with the kernel that is distributed on
the cd, when I compiled my own kernel, OSS modules failed to work. There is
also ALSA, which I did download and get to work (this was many years ago...
cant remember the details...).
On my slack box, Ive compiled the CMPCI driver for my sound (yep, I got
surround sound under linux), but use the original sound drivers under suse (i
dont wanna mess it up!) which means Stereo, not Surround on suse.
Your situation is possibly related to a kernel upgrade.
Jamie
On Thursday 06 February 2003 12:22 pm, 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
:
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Eh, that's it, I guess. No 300 million dollar unveiling event for this
kernel, I'm afraid, but you're still supposed to think of this as the
"happening of the century" (at least until the next kernel comes along).
Oh, and this is another kernel in that great and venerable "BugFree(tm)"
series of kernels. So be not afraid of bugs, but go out in the streets
and deliver this message of joy to the masses.
-- Linus Torvalds, on releasing 1.3.27
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