Sam Spastic

I assume since I normally login to Gnome that its running GDM. But I really don't know. Running Metacity wm.

When this started failing I switched to kde. There was no change to the logoff so I went back to Gnome. I have also tried a shutdown from the menu. The display half crashed. Top half was the login theme background and the bottom half was white. The script finished and shut down the computer tho I couldn't see the script output. I will continue to use the menu shutdown as it seems to not require any repair of the hard drive at boot.

The system hangs whenever I or any user logs off. What script should I be looking at to fix this. I couldn't find .xinitrc like I would use on my Mac to start X-Free86 Gnome and Enlightenmant. But I assume it is a similar problem to what I would get if an app was called without exec and it didn't get killed.

Anyway when I log out it looks like everything goes away and I get a blank screeen. I do not see the login script running (the echo to the terminal is not there).

Thanks for any help.

I agree probably not an OS issue. But it still is a configuration issue for me.

here is output from kinfocenter:

Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.20 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux tc-laptop 2.6.31.6-desktop586-1mnb #1 SMP Tue Dec 8 15:43:31 EST 2009 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers: 
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config: 
ESS ES1978 (Maestro 2E) at 0x1400, irq 5

Audio devices:
0: ESS Maestro (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices:
0: ESS ES1978 (Maestro 2E) MIDI

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: SigmaTel STAC9721,23

Last week the Midi devices: line was the same as the Synth devices line is now.

I just need to know which config file needs to be edited and what magic numbers need to be there.

One of my sequencer apps may have prompted the midi devices fix.

but I really don't know which one.

Jack is running but ALSA should be the one to enable the built-in synth device.

It could be the driver needs to be updated as it may only partially support the card or the developer believes no one would want that?

I hope no one misunderstood. Sound works. MIDI device now works. Synth device NOT working.

Thanks.

ohh just checked in kinfocenter and the midi device is enabled

0: ESS ES1978 (Maestro 2E) MIDI

Well thats different than last weekend?

I wonder what got that turned on.

There are many variants of ESS Maestro.

What's the output of

#lspci

in a root console?

It's probably the ESS Maestro 2e, but it doesn't hurt to know for sure.

You can also give us an

#lsmod | grep snd

[root@tc-laptop willyt]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1225 (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

[root@tc-laptop willyt]# lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel          26760  0 
snd_hda_codec          77988  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               7560  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_es1968             25152  2 
gameport               11408  1 snd_es1968
snd_ac97_codec        103912  1 snd_es1968
ac97_bus                1604  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_mpu401_uart         7332  1 snd_es1968
snd_rawmidi            23264  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_dummy           2696  0 
snd_seq_oss            31712  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      7236  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                54672  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          7248  4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            44672  0 
snd_pcm                82664  5 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_es1968,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              22124  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          16612  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    62564  18 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_es1968,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore               8128  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          9164  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_es1968,snd_pcm

Yep I still think it should work I just don't know the magic numbers or where to put them. Need the hardware synth but don't have to have the mpu401 (no cable plus I'll try to get Fastlane 2 working)

Thanks

Sam (willyt)

I googled this for several weeks now. All I can find is either people who can't get sound to work or wwaayy tooo ddeeepp how to compile kernal.

My sound works.

I want to enable the onboard hardware synth in my soundcard. Dell Inspirion 7500 laptop with EES Tech. Maestro soundcard. Really the 450MHz CPU needs a break.

Actually I thought the soundcard synth was the reason alsa was started.

Someone please point me in the right direction.

Thank you.