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

[Hugh Brown]

Those all look like the video chipset stuff, not the audio.

What's the output of lspci

Hugh

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 19:10, Paul Nowosielski wrote:
> 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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