2.6.0-test9 vs sound

2.6.0-test9 vs sound

[Gene Heskett]

Where can I find a step by step tutorial on installing alsa since OSS 
has been deprecated?  I've been using the shareware OSS on this mobo 
for years, the audio chipset is VIA 8233 family.  I have as much of 
it compiled into the kernel as there are checkmarks in kconfig but 
nothing soundwise is working yet.  I also put that LXD option on the 
grub line, but thats being ignored, the dmesg comment is still there.
If grub.conf wasn't where it goes, please advise on that too.

I've been booted to this for about 10 hours now, and so far sound is 
the only thing not working that I've needed.  Not all of my usb stuff 
has been exercized yet though.

So far it just plain feels good, congrats to all involved.

Mmm, the pair of warnings about the check_region call being deprecated 
are still there in the advansys driver, but it worked normally for 
amanda last night.

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Re: 2.6.0-test9 vs sound

[cliff white]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:08:27 -0500
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:

> Where can I find a step by step tutorial on installing alsa since OSS 
> has been deprecated?  I've been using the shareware OSS on this mobo 
> for years, the audio chipset is VIA 8233 family.  I have as much of 
> it compiled into the kernel as there are checkmarks in kconfig but 
> nothing soundwise is working yet.  I also put that LXD option on the 
> grub line, but thats being ignored, the dmesg comment is still there.
> If grub.conf wasn't where it goes, please advise on that too.
> 
> I've been booted to this for about 10 hours now, and so far sound is 
> the only thing not working that I've needed.  Not all of my usb stuff 
> has been exercized yet though.
> 
> So far it just plain feels good, congrats to all involved.
> 
> Mmm, the pair of warnings about the check_region call being deprecated 
> are still there in the advansys driver, but it worked normally for 
> amanda last night.

I would start from the source:
http://alsa-project.org/documentation.php3
Or, try the Linux Audio Users Guide:

http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/index.php

A setup guide for the via8233, with module config info is here:

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=via8233

cliffw


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Re: 2.6.0-test9 vs sound

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 30 October 2003 19:07, cliff white wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:08:27 -0500
>
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
>> Where can I find a step by step tutorial on installing alsa since
>> OSS has been deprecated?  I've been using the shareware OSS on
>> this mobo for years, the audio chipset is VIA 8233 family.  I have
>> as much of it compiled into the kernel as there are checkmarks in
>> kconfig but nothing soundwise is working yet.  I also put that LXD
>> option on the grub line, but thats being ignored, the dmesg
>> comment is still there. If grub.conf wasn't where it goes, please
>> advise on that too.
>>
>> I've been booted to this for about 10 hours now, and so far sound
>> is the only thing not working that I've needed.  Not all of my usb
>> stuff has been exercized yet though.
>>
>> So far it just plain feels good, congrats to all involved.
>>
>> Mmm, the pair of warnings about the check_region call being
>> deprecated are still there in the advansys driver, but it worked
>> normally for amanda last night.
>
>I would start from the source:
>http://alsa-project.org/documentation.php3
>Or, try the Linux Audio Users Guide:
>
>http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/index.php
>
>A setup guide for the via8233, with module config info is here:
>
>http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=via8233
>
>cliffw
>
Ok thanks, followup Q:  Whats the version number thats in the kernel 
srcs?
The latest dl's available are version 9.8.
>> --
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Re: 2.6.0-test9 vs sound

[Måns Rullgård]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> writes:

> Ok thanks, followup Q:  Whats the version number thats in the kernel 
> srcs?
> The latest dl's available are version 9.8.

No, it's 0.9.8.  The version in the kernel is approximately 0.9.7,
with some patches, IIRC.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

Re: 2.6.0-test9 vs sound

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 31 October 2003 04:16, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> writes:
>> Ok thanks, followup Q:  Whats the version number thats in the
>> kernel srcs?
>> The latest dl's available are version 9.8.
>
>No, it's 0.9.8.  The version in the kernel is approximately 0.9.7,
>with some patches, IIRC.

Well, I've got it (alsa) all compiled in without any luck.  But, I 
haven't deleted/commented out, any of the rather voluminous oss "shut 
this off and shut that off" lines in my modules.conf either.

Some of the tutorials in those links would seem to indicate that 
/etc/modules.conf has been renamed, which I have not, and my modutils 
are still the same as I've been using for a few months with 2.4.  I 
saw an announcement regarding a new modutils tool set last night, do 
I need to install that, and does that then fubar a 2.4.23-pre8 boot?

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Re: 2.6.0-test9 vs sound

[Måns Rullgård]

Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> writes:

> Some of the tutorials in those links would seem to indicate that 
> /etc/modules.conf has been renamed, which I have not, and my modutils 
> are still the same as I've been using for a few months with 2.4.  I 
> saw an announcement regarding a new modutils tool set last night, do 
> I need to install that, and does that then fubar a 2.4.23-pre8 boot?

You need the new module-init-tools.  If you follow the instructions
provided with them, things will continue to work with 2.4 kernels.

-- 
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mru@kth.se

Re: 2.6.0-test9 vs sound

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 31 October 2003 08:50, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> writes:
>> Some of the tutorials in those links would seem to indicate that
>> /etc/modules.conf has been renamed, which I have not, and my
>> modutils are still the same as I've been using for a few months
>> with 2.4.  I saw an announcement regarding a new modutils tool set
>> last night, do I need to install that, and does that then fubar a
>> 2.4.23-pre8 boot?
>
>You need the new module-init-tools.  If you follow the instructions
>provided with them, things will continue to work with 2.4 kernels.

Thanks, I'll go get them.

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Re: 2.6.0-test9 vs sound

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 31 October 2003 08:50, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> writes:
>> Some of the tutorials in those links would seem to indicate that
>> /etc/modules.conf has been renamed, which I have not, and my
>> modutils are still the same as I've been using for a few months
>> with 2.4.  I saw an announcement regarding a new modutils tool set
>> last night, do I need to install that, and does that then fubar a
>> 2.4.23-pre8 boot?
>
>You need the new module-init-tools.  If you follow the instructions
>provided with them, things will continue to work with 2.4 kernels.

Got it, turns out I already had module-init-tools-0.9.13-pre.tar.bz2 
installed, but just now got module-init-tools-0.9.15-pre3.tar.gz, 
unpacked it, read the INSTALL quickly, then the usual 
./configure;make;make install which went w/o error.  Figured I'd 
reboot to see if that worked any better, and got a message about each 
mountpoint being busy as it went down, each of which hung the 
shutdown for a few seconds.

Booted back to 2.4.23-pre8 things are apparently fine again.
Is this a onetime thing?

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Re: 2.6.0-test9 vs sound

[bill davidsen]

In article <yw1x8yn1zfb8.fsf@kth.se>,
=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= <mru@kth.se> wrote:
| Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> writes:
| 
| > Some of the tutorials in those links would seem to indicate that 
| > /etc/modules.conf has been renamed, which I have not, and my modutils 
| > are still the same as I've been using for a few months with 2.4.  I 
| > saw an announcement regarding a new modutils tool set last night, do 
| > I need to install that, and does that then fubar a 2.4.23-pre8 boot?
| 
| You need the new module-init-tools.  If you follow the instructions
| provided with them, things will continue to work with 2.4 kernels.

The only thing to watch out for is that the "probe" functionality was
removed from the new package, which requires manual loading of the
modules and testing of the status. Inconvenient if you need to do it at
boot time, otherwise write a script. That feature typically was used
only when the hardware for the initial drivers might be nonfunctional
and and alternative was needed.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.