[newbie] Boot up modules
Hi, Whenever I log on I can play CDs but not system sounds on my SB Live!. I have the kaudioserver and kwmsound in the $KDEDIR/bin/startkde file but these do not seem to be started. Also, the settings are always muted (default behaviour). After some investigation found that snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss (allows backward compatibility) modules are not loaded. When I modprobe these and exec kaudioserver and kwmsound I get systems sounds. My question is, if I want to load these modules at bootup, which file do I put them in ? I want to be able to use sound in all shells. Also, can I put the 'amixer set XXX unmute' settings along side these ? What is the normal convension ? Thanks in advance, Michael
Re: [newbie] Kernel msg : Ran out of Input data/Out of memory
Hi, Solved this minor crises. I hadn't run lilo to reload my /etc/lilo.conf . Michael - Original Message - From: Michael C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 11:42 PM Subject: [newbie] Kernel msg : Ran out of Input data/Out of memory Hi, I thought I succesfully upgraded from linux 2.2.13 to 2.2.14, but seem to have run into a problem. I have three symbolic links in the /boot directory - System.map, module-info and vmlinux. Originally these pointed to my 2.2.13 installation, but I changed these to point to my 2.2.14 installation. By the way my module file is empty as one isn't produce when I do a 'make module_install'. My /etc/lilo.conf file has a new entry, based on the 2.2.13 installation, but pointing to the 2.2.14 installation. When I reboot and start the 2.2.14 installation, I get the following message : Uncompressing linux... ran of of input data -- System halted I reboot again and start the 2.2.13 installation o.k. System.map is pointed to the current kernel version, but everything else remains unchanged. Got this a few times, so I recompiled 2.2.14 and tried again. This time I got : Uncompressing linux... out of memory -- System halted I have run out of ideas here. I only other thing I can tell you is that I have to use 'make bzImage' as the zImage is to large. Any help would be appreciated. Michael
[newbie] Kernel msg : Ran out of Input data/Out of memory
Hi, I thought I succesfully upgraded from linux 2.2.13 to 2.2.14, but seem to have run into a problem. I have three symbolic links in the /boot directory - System.map, module-info and vmlinux. Originally these pointed to my 2.2.13 installation, but I changed these to point to my 2.2.14 installation. By the way my module file is empty as one isn't produce when I do a 'make module_install'. My /etc/lilo.conf file has a new entry, based on the 2.2.13 installation, but pointing to the 2.2.14 installation. When I reboot and start the 2.2.14 installation, I get the following message : Uncompressing linux... ran of of input data -- System halted I reboot again and start the 2.2.13 installation o.k. System.map is pointed to the current kernel version, but everything else remains unchanged. Got this a few times, so I recompiled 2.2.14 and tried again. This time I got : Uncompressing linux... out of memory -- System halted I have run out of ideas here. I only other thing I can tell you is that I have to use 'make bzImage' as the zImage is to large. Any help would be appreciated. Michael
Re: [newbie] Unanswered Question
Hi Hershel , I am new to this site so I didn't see your previous mail. 1 Is this a reasonable plan? You plan sounds o.k. although I have never use fdisk. I use PartitionMagic from Windows which is safe. But I would advise you back up your data first. 2 What do I need to do to let my Linux on D know that I removed partitions two from C (i.e. Linux on D currently mounts those partitions) unmount the drives from Linux or you may see some error messages when you next boot up (having removed the partitions). You do this from LinuxConf.attach local drives. You will get the list of mountable drives. Click on the ones you want and delete them. 3 Lilo currently is able to boot into NT and Linux on C and Linux on D. I assume that I can just edit lilo.conf to remove the Linux on C and then run lilo -v and lilo will be happy.Not too clued up on LILO, but that sounds o.k. Hope it helps, Michael When I initially installed Linux I just used the program that comes on the CD for partitioning P.S. Did you get a limited version of PartitionMagic with your CDs. If so, look at it.
[newbie] System.map
Hi, I have just succesfully downloaded, configured and compiled the linux kernel 2.2.14. I was originally using 2.2.13 that I got off the CD. I have moved the new kernel image into the /boot directory within its own subdirectory and updated the /etc/lilo.conf file. On booting up the computer I get the following warning: /boot/System.map has an incorrect kernel version. Linux boots up o.k. except with this message being displayed a number of times. Can any one tell me why this is happening and how I resolve the problem ? Thank you in advance, Michael
[newbie] Mounting Logical Drives
Hi, I have a disk with a primary FAT32 partition (C drive) and an extended primary partition. The extended partition has logical drives d, e, f and g. These drives are also FAT32. I partitioned these using Partition Magic. Linux (on seperate drive) can mount /dev/hdc1. This is mounted using vfat at bootup. Within LinuxConf I cannot seem to mount my logical drives, I have tried /dev/hdc2, with the same options as hdc1 but with no joy, it just won't mount. I have tried changing settings as well. When I exit LinuxConf, it points me to the error log that suggests that I have too many fs mounted (not true) or that I am trying to mount a logical partition within an extended one, which is of course what I am trying to do. However, it gives NO solutions, it doesn't tell me where I am going wrong. I have also unmounted hdc1 prior to attempting to mount hdc2 - again no luck. Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong. Thank you. Michael
[newbie] Kernal Upgrade
Hi, I have Linux Kernal 2.2.13. I would like to upgrade this to the latest version that supports USB, and SB Live! I also have a USB camera and scanner that I'd like to use. How do I do this? Do I upgrade my Kernal level by level (i.e. download and install the 2.2.13 patch first, followed by the 2.2.14 patches and so on), or can I download the latest Kernal and go straight to that. Also, I only have a winmodem, so can I download these files to windows and then from Linux copy them over for installation ? I intend to purchase an external modem but not right now. I currently have Linux-Mandrake 6.1 (Red Hat Linux with enhancements). Thanks, Michael
Re: [newbie] Mounting Logical Drives
Hi Audrey, I could be wrong on this, but the first thing I'd check is why you are mounting hdcX at all. If your master disk on the first ide bus is your C drive, then it should be hdaX. My primary IDE interface has my Linux disk attached as Master, my secondary IDE interface has my DOS disk as Master. My CDROM is slave on one of these interfaces. This is why my C drive is seen as /dev/hdc1 from Linux. I also think that logical drives in extended partitions start with the number 5. So hda5 would be your d drive. Post your /etc/fstab. Install always messed up my logical Win partitions and might be doing the same thing to you. That was the message I'd get. You're right on the button. I double checked what you said and you are right, you are allowed up to 4 principal partitions (hdc1-4) on an IDE disk, any more partitions must be part of an extended partition and are logical drives (hdc5- ... ). Thank you very much. Don't know why I couldn't locate the data earlier. Michael
Re: [newbie] SBLive and kernel recompilation
Hi, I also have a Sound Blaster Live! card. I have visited the Creative Europe site and did a search for linux under the FAQ, here are the results : Q. Will the Sound Blaster Live! work under Linux? A. Creative has hired and trained programmers who are proficient in Linux device driver programming, and we continue to work on drivers for various products, including the Sound Blaster Live!. There's no set release date yet. If you get your card working, please let me know. Thanks, Michael
