kshuff Posted January 4, 2003 Report Share Posted January 4, 2003 Hello group, Trying to get Mandrake 9 running on my laptop but ran into a problem. I'm new to Linux and unix running on the Intel platform, but have experience with IRIX on the SGI platform and some Solaris knowledge. The laptop is a Dell Latitude CPi, Pentium II 300MHz with 128Mb of memory. I'm using this as a test setup to familiarize myself with the OS before comitting it to my desktop. The install went fine but when the system rebooted, it hangs at: Starting portmapper: [ OK ] cardmgr[8281]: executing: ' ./ide start hde' Starting system logger: [FAILED] Starting kernel logger: [ OK ] Starting partmon: This is where it stops. Does anyone know what's going on or what's causing this? -ks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef_kunal Posted January 4, 2003 Report Share Posted January 4, 2003 my guess is that your partitions are messed up i could be wrong but you could try checking the disk with fdisk and use v to verify the partition table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 4, 2003 Report Share Posted January 4, 2003 Also just a guess...if you're using lilo as your bootloader, at the lilo prompt hit Esc and type linux ide=nodma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshuff Posted January 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2003 Found it. Turns out it was a PCMCIA ATA flashdisk that was not mounting. Everything is cool now, except for sound. Its not detecting the built in Crystal 4237B sound card, thus I have no sound :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 4, 2003 Report Share Posted January 4, 2003 Have you tried sndconfig? Works with my CS4281. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshuff Posted January 4, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2003 Next on my list, still setting things up -ks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshuff Posted January 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 Did the "sndconfig" thing, I couldn't get the Crystal 4237 to work but got a couple others working. I can now hear the test clip, but the sound server still will not start, keep getting this message: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: Can't set playback format (_format=-1, asked driver to give 16, got 8) The sound server will continue, using the null output device Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted January 5, 2003 Report Share Posted January 5, 2003 The install went fine but when the system rebooted, it hangs at: Starting portmapper: [ OK ] cardmgr[8281]: executing: ' ./ide start hde' Starting system logger: [FAILED] Starting kernel logger: [ OK ] Starting partmon: Its trying to start hde, which is a drive name I have not seen before. I know of only these: hda and hdb (ide0) hdc and hdd (ide1) Must be an unusual drive. Found it. Turns out it was a PCMCIA ATA flashdisk that was not mounting. Everything is cool now That explains the unusual hde drive. Did the "sndconfig" thing, I couldn't get the Crystal 4237 to work but got a couple others working. I can now hear the test clip, but the sound server still will not start, keep getting this message: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: Can't set playback format (_format=-1, asked driver to give 16, got The sound server will continue, using the null output device Are u using the KDE arts server ? Please post the output of these commands:cat /proc/pci cat /etc/modules.conf cat /proc/modules Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshuff Posted January 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 Are u using the KDE arts server ? Please post the output of these commands:cat /proc/pci cat /etc/modules.conf cat /proc/modules Yes, using the arts server /proc/pci: PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel Corp 440BX/ZX/DX-82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) Bus 0, device 2 function 0: VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corp NM2160 IRQ11 Bus 0, device 3, function 0: CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 IRQ11 Bus 0, device 3, function 0: CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (#2) IRQ11 Bus 0, device 7, function 0: Bridge: Intel Corp 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: Intel Corp 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE Bus 0, device 7, function 2: USB Controller: Intel Corp 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB IRQ11 Bus 0, device 7, function 3: Bridge: Intel Corp 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI IRQ9 /etc/modules.conf probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 sb options sound dmabuf=1 alias synth0 opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 mpu_io=0x330 acer=1 /proc/modules lp 6720 0 parport_pc 21672 1 parport 23936 1 [lp parport_pc] nfsd 66576 8 (autoclean) lockd 46480 1 (autoclean) [nfsd] sunrpc 60188 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd] serial_cs 4688 0 (unused) ide_cs 3652 1 ds 6828 2 [seria_cs ide_cs] yenta_socket 9728 2 pcmcia_core 42272 0 [serial_cs ide_cs ds yenta_socket] ppp_async 7456 0 (unused) ppp_generic 20064 0 [ppp_async] slhc 5072 0 [ppp_generic] af_packet 13000 0 (autoclean) supermount 14340 2 (autoclean) ide-scsi 8212 0 scsi-mod 90372 1 [ide-scsi] sb 7668 0 sb_lib 34958 0 [sb] uart401 6628 0 [sb_lib] sound 55732 0 [sb_lib uart401] soundscore 3780 0 [sb_lib sound] usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused) usbcore 58304 1 [usb-uhci] rtc 6560 0 (autoclean) ext3 74004 2 jbd 38452 2 [ext3] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 U have an ISA card (since the PCI list shows no audio card). Also, u r using the OSS driver sb. Here's one site ( http://www.acqualan.com.br/misc/cs4237b.html ) which says that cs4232 driver works for the cs4237b chipset. Also, the ALSA doc ( http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ ) suggests snd-cs4236 driver for the cs4237b chipset. Anyway, are other sound apps (xmms) are working fine ? Now, regarding the arts problem, it gives this error message: Error while initializing the sound driver: Can't set playback format (_format=-1, asked driver to give 16, got Run /sbin/modinfo sb and u will get these lines: parm: dma int, description "8-bit DMA channel (0,1,3)"parm: dma16 int, description "16-bit DMA channel (5,6,7)" U have the line options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 mpu_io=0x330 acer=1 in ur /etc/modules.conf which sets the dma channel to 0. Note that the dma channel 0 is a 8-bit one while arts is asking for a 16-bit channel. Thats why there is a problem. Now, if u run /sbin/modprobe -vn sb you will get this output: /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o.gz/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sound.o.gz /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/uart401.o.gz /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb_lib.o.gz /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o.gz io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 The last line shows the default parameters of the sb driver and it has this dma16=5 parameter which might just solve ur problem. So here's the suggestions: 1. Quit all sound apps. Disable the arts server in kde control center. 2. Modify /etc/modules.conf by commenting out (put a # at the start of the line) the line options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 mpu_io=0x330 acer=1. 3. Unload the sb driver: modprobe -vr sb 4. Reload the sb driver: modprobe -v sb This loads the sb driver with the default options. 5. Restarts the arts server and test sound in kde control center. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshuff Posted January 12, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2003 Ok, update. I got the Crystal 4232 driver set up that I can now hear the test clip in sndconfig, and no error from the arts server. The setup is also correctly identified in /etc/modules.conf and /proc/modules, still no sound :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 12, 2003 Report Share Posted January 12, 2003 No sound in what?...where? XMMS? Is xmms-arts installed? {bvc9 11:07 PM bvc9}>rpm -qa | grep xmms xmms-mesa-1.2.7-13mdk xmms-esd-1.2.7-13mdk xmms-arts-0.4-8mdk libxmms1-1.2.7-13mdk xmms-more-vis-plugins-1.6.0-2mdk xmms-mikmod-1.2.7-13mdk xmms-1.2.7-13mdk xmms-smpeg-0.3.4-7mdk {bvc9 11:07 PM bvc9}> Then rt click the tittlebar of xmms>options>preferences>and choose the aRts driver for the Output Plugin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshuff Posted January 12, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2003 No sound anywhere, in all the apps. rpm | grep xmms reveals: libxmms1-1.2.7-13mdk xmms-1.2.7-13mdk xmms-skins-1.0.0-13mdk That's it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 12, 2003 Report Share Posted January 12, 2003 If you're going to use the arts server then for xmms you'll need to install xmms-arts. Sound in kde is setup, I think, in the kde Control Center>Personalization. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGuy© Posted January 26, 2003 Report Share Posted January 26, 2003 For system sounds like when a app closes you have to check the tiny box next to Play Sound tab. Then test it. :) The default sound is KDE_Window_Close.wav It's already setup but it needs to have that box checked before it will work, that is if you have a working sound card to begin with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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