[lug] Wierd audio problems nforce 2 chip set, suse 9.1

[Paul Nowosielski]

Ok, I went through the logs and found this:

power:/home/p51/tmp/nforce # cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Thu Jul 15 21:48:57 2004

option status:
  license pre-accepted    : true
  update                  : false
  force update            : false
  expert                  : false
  uninstall               : true
  driver info             : false
  no precompiled interface: false
  no ncurses color        : false
  query latest driver ver : false
  OpenGL header files     : false
  no questions            : true
  silent                  : true
  XFree86 install prefix  : /usr/X11R6
  OpenGL install prefix   : /usr
  Installer install prefix: /usr
  kernel source path      : (not specified)
  kernel install path     : (not specified)
  proc mount point        : /proc
  ui                      : none
  tmpdir                  : /tmp
  ftp site                : ftp://download.nvidia.com

Using built-in stream user interface
-> Parsing log file:
-> done.
-> Validating previous installation:
-> Unable to access previously installed file

    ## this is bad, yes?

   '/lib/modules/2.6.4-54.5-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko' (No
such
   file or directory).
-> done.
WARNING: Your driver installation has been altered since it was
initially
         installed; this may happen, for example, if you have since
installed
         the NVIDIA driver through a mechanism other than the
nvidia-installer
         (such as rpm or with the NVIDIA tarballs).  The
nvidia-installer will
         attempt to uninstall as best it can.  Please see the file
         '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.
-> Uninstalling NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86
(1.0-5336):
-> done.
-> Uninstallation of existing driver: NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver
for
   Linux-x86 (1.0-5336) is complete.


So I think the kernel modules were not compiled for this new kernel.
But check this out:

power:/home/p51/tmp/nforce # lsmod |grep nv
nvidia               2070120  0
nvram                   8456  0
nvidia_agp              7708  1
agpgart                30888  1 nvidia_agp


So some of the modules are still there.

I'm guessing I have to re-compile the kernel with nvidia support (
available in 2.6 ) or just wait for Suse to come out with an update.

Do you think this is a proper conclusion??


Thanks,

Paul

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 06:22, Hugh Brown wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 03:07, Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> >  I'm hoping someone can help with this audio dilemma.
> > 
> > I'm running Suse 9.1 on an Nvidia nforce chipset with on-board sound.
> > I have never had a problem till about a week ago ~every thing~ worked
> > perfect. I could record audio, listen etc etc. 
> > 
> > Now when I try to open any recording software I get this error 
> > 
> > "direct access to the sound device not possible, No soundcard available
> > or sound support not configured yet....."
> > 
> >  Mplayer does not play any audio now also.
> > 
> > But xmms plays audio fine.
> > 
> > I added a second soundcard (sound blaster live)  and had the same
> > problems( this card worked with machine in the past).
> > 
> > I haven't made any major changes to hardware/software on the system
> > but I do have the automatic updates setup and there have been some
> > kernel upgrades recently.
> > 
> > Also there is no /dev/dsp but there is 
> > /dev/dsp0 /dev/dsp2 and /dev/dsp3
> > 
> > 
> > Any ideas about this be be greatly appreciated. I had to break out an
> > old windoze box yesterday to perform rudimentary audio tasks :(
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> I'd start looking through the various log files in /var/log for clues.
> 
> Hugh
> 
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