From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200007091225.NAA19777@hyperion.valhalla.net> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 13:25:17 +0100 Subject: Re: X still locks up From: "Iain Sandoe" To: Gwyn Judd CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Sun, Jul 9, 2000 Gwyn Judd wrote: > On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 01:58:42AM +0100, Iain Sandoe wrote: >> >> > On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 11:06:40PM +0100, Iain Sandoe wrote: >> >> Three things: >> >> >> >> 1/ did you try the backported audio stuff I posted yesterday - there were >> >> some issues that were resolved between 2.2.xx and 2.3/4.xx these should be >> >> present in the backport. It does work OK against 2.2.17pre10-ben1. >> > >> > Oh whoops can you send that to me or tell me where I can get it? I >> > thought it was part of bens kernel. >> >> Well, I wish it might be one day - but it's quite new (yesterday) and it >> will take a bit more testing before it's accepted. >> >> here's the URL: >> >> http://quimby.gnus.org/circus/dmasound_backport.patch.bz2 >> >> (but there's no reference to it anywhere higher up so use something like >> anarchie/interarchy get via http - or whatever). > > Okay I tried that one by applying the patch to the current stable kernel > (2.2.17 I believe). It was against 2.2.17pre7 (linuxcare linux-pmac-stable tree) - but tested against Ben's pre10-ben1 as well rsync'ed as of yesterday. >Once gnome started up I got an error message "No > mixers found". Are you using modules - or complied in? Modules currently require a different insertion thingy: modprobe soundcore modprobe dmasound_core modprode dmasound_awacs I asked Geert about this - will get back to you/list when this is resolved. check you have action with cat /proc/modules and cat /dev/sndstat before doing anything too exotic. suggestion ;-) boot 'single' do the modprobes and a simple check before going to init 5. Also please remind me what machine you are on and whether you have any OSS stuff enabled as well. >When I tried to play an mp3 through xmms X locked up > completely although I was able to change VT's, however I was unable to > kill X or reboot properly. Oh well at least fsck is getting a work-out > this week :). Does Magic SysRq work for you (alt-F13) on my G3 try: alt-f13-k (kill processes in current vt) alt-f13-s (emergency sync) alt-f13-e (kill everything except init) This *should* at least save some fsking time :-) thanks for the report... Iain. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/