@Geri

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Geri wrote: @RacerX Quote: RacerX wrote: @Geri I think I've installed it correctly bunzip2 -f linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 I'm not sure, if that does the right thing (at least the manpage for bunzip2 doesn't say that it also decompresses the tar archive). I did it this way: cd / tar -xjvf linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 Please note that the name of the kernel image may have changed!

I tried that first (I think I actually used

-xvzf

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@RacerX

Thats's because it bzipped

You need the option -xjf

x = extract
j = filter through bzip first
f = file

the z in your variant means filetr through gzip hence the error message

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@broadblues

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broadblues wrote: @RacerX try going to the gnome-control-panel and selecting the sound tab / icon (can also find it via the system / preferences menu). There are various types of sound usage lsited and you can click on the popups to slect which card to use, or leave it on autselect. I don't have the chip so I don't know what name the onboard sound will show as, but this approach enables me to switch between my terratec phase 22 and my sb128 under linux. I think the gstreamer-properties prgram I mentioned above also allows you to select different audio sources / sinks.

I normally use KDE. Is there a KDE equivalant?

I thought there was something that was accessed via the shell.

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@RacerX

Command line wise you might be thinking of alsaconf. That should enable you to force alsa to choose the onboard sound over a pci slot addition. If you only have onboard sound alsa should find it anyway. Running alsaconf does no harm though.

KMix is what I used to us under KDE to change sound settings. I don't have it installed at the moment, and apt-get wanted to download 169Megs of other jusnk just to resinstall it so I couldn't test if that allows you to select the card or just adjusted the allready selected one.

Sometimes I have problems with my sound cards not initialising properly at boot (usually the Terratec Phase 22) so I run "alsa force-reload". try this if nothing appears the next time you boot after running alsaconf.

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both the alsa commands I metioned need to be run as root (or at least 'su')

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broadblues wrote: @RacerX Command line wise you might be thinking of alsaconf. That should enable you to force alsa to choose the onboard sound over a pci slot addition. If you only have onboard sound alsa should find it anyway. Running alsaconf does no harm though. KMix is what I used to us under KDE to change sound settings. I don't have it installed at the moment, and apt-get wanted to download 169Megs of other jusnk just to resinstall it so I couldn't test if that allows you to select the card or just adjusted the allready selected one. Sometimes I have problems with my sound cards not initialising properly at boot (usually the Terratec Phase 22) so I run "alsa force-reload". try this if nothing appears the next time you boot after running alsaconf.

Still no joy. "alsaconf" doesn't seem to be a command. "alsa force-reload" shows it unloading and re-loading the drivers (and I get a couple of clicks from the speakers) but nothing else seems to happen.

If I open the Kmix window, by "Current mixer:" is a blank box. It has an arrow on the box like you could click on it and select a mixer but clicking on it does nothing. The KMix window has no sliders.

I went into Kpackage and installed several mixer type things but nothing seemed to help.

I've made a little progress. I used to get a window when Debian booted saying the sound couldn't be initiallized (something about /dev/dsp?). I don't get that anymore.

BTW: The on-board sound works fine on OS4.

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@RacerX

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RacerX wrote: @broadblues Still no joy. "alsaconf" doesn't seem to be a command. "alsa force-reload" shows it unloading and re-loading the drivers (and I get a couple of clicks from the speakers) but nothing else seems to happen.

Do you have installed the alsa-base and alsa-utils packages?

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@Geri

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I put the new patch file on amigaone-linux.sourceforge.net. The file that implements the quirks is arch/ppc/platforms/amigaone_quirks.c after you patched the linux kernel source code. This is just a intermediate solution, as I have to find a cleaner way to fixup the PCI resources for the official kernel tree. BTW: Did you try out the official kernel source from www.kernel.org with AmigaOne support?

I was working in the amigaone_pci.c and amigaone_pcibios_after_init() areas. Couldn't get the read/write through the baseaddress vector to work correctly. I did find where it was stopping, though. As you probably know, the original kernel code was not able to correctly set up the Sigmatel chip. Again, good on you! (I was trying to beat you to it, but didn't get there...)

I have not tried the official kernel source with A1 support. In fact, I can't try anything right now as my A1 has inexplicitly quit on me. (Won't boot, no video, verified good video card though, fans whir, disks go around, but no boot.) Aargh. Have to get that fixed first.

@DL

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I can't try anything right now as my A1 has inexplicitly quit on me. (Won't boot, no video, verified good video card though, fans whir, disks go around, but no boot.) Aargh. Have to get that fixed first.

Battery ?

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@Geri

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Geri wrote: @RacerX Quote: RacerX wrote: @broadblues Still no joy. "alsaconf" doesn't seem to be a command. "alsa force-reload" shows it unloading and re-loading the drivers (and I get a couple of clicks from the speakers) but nothing else seems to happen. Do you have installed the alsa-base and alsa-utils packages?

Yes, both were already installed.

alsaconf DOES work now (I guess I had to restart the computer). It recognized the on-board sound and seemed to work fine, but still no sound. I shut the computer down and restarted it and still nothing. NO sliders or mixer shown in Kmix, and no sound from XMMS or the control panel sound settings.

In the Kcontrol panel, should the audio device be set to 'auto' or 'alsa' or what?

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@RacerX

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the Kcontrol panel, should the audio device be set to 'auto' or 'alsa' or what?

I usually set it to alsa.

At one point I manually edited one of the alsa config files in /etc but i cant remember which one... which is unhelpful, I know.

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This is the output I get in the shell when I run alsaconf

Loading driver...
Setting default volumes...
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory
Saving the mixer setup used for this in /var/lib/alsa/asound.state.
/usr/sbin/alsactl: save_state:1497: No soundcards found...


===============================================================================

 Now ALSA is ready to use.
 For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer.

 Have a lot of fun!

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I also get this message as I shut down Linux and get ready to switch off the computer

Shutting down ALSA ... warning 'alsactl store' failed with error message
'alsactl: save_state:1497: no sound cards found...' ...failed

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@broadblues

Thanks for the tips. I was using a friends web cam and don't have one myself.

Nice Youtube footage. Good to learn more about members here. Guitarist and web designer. Now the avatar makes sense!

@Geri

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I vaguely remember that it has something to do with dual head, but I'm not sure.

Okay. Is this very common?

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Looks like a new U-boot firmware is awaited eagerly!

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I would also like to see U-boot image decompression fixed, configurable image load address for the slbv2, flattened device tree support and hush shell interface.

What is broken in compression? I forget. And what is this hush? If you can talk and don't need to be hush hush about it.

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Did you take a look at the motherboard or does it work under OS4? I still have one of these SigmaTel codec chips. I can send you one, if you want.

Thanks. Is it worth using in place of of a SoundBlaster?

I'm surew I checked the lot once, but I am going by OD4 debug output:
[VIA-AC97] Debug: AC-Link reset, primary codec not ready!
[VIA-AC97] Error: sorry, you don't seem to have the AC'97 codec!
Unable to initialize Card subsystem.

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Did you check, if the webcam is already supported by Linux v2.6.18?

No, I just plugged it in to see what would heppen.

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Well, Linux should load the kernel drivers, but AFAIK you still have to manually setup the printer in CUPS. GNOME should be your friend here.

I have some stuff missing. "SPM" had GNOME printer stuff not installed, but couldn't download with my sources. I tweaked it recently so will try and install again.

Seems I lost things when upgrading from Etch to Lenny.

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Hmm, are you sure, you're using the new kernel image!? Note that it is named uImage-2.6.18 and not kernel-2.6.18.img anymore!

Sorry, no I wasn't, I was still testing the old kernel! Will install and also check how USB is. That previous good high speed USB report gives me hope.

@Geri

Um, I just checked my downloads and I can't find an updated Linux kernel! I've got the modules but the uImage I see is for 2.6.10 and even says so in the file. And the build date is from last year according to mkimage.

I don't know how to up my kernel!

@RacerX

No soundcards found is a worrying line to read...

What is the contents of /var/lib/asla/asound.state ?

What do you get if you do a "cat /proc/asound/cards" ?

Does the output of the above change after doing the aslaconf routine?

Here's the content of my asound.state file , I don't have the onboard sound, but the format of the file should be similar, just with extra entry for the VIA chip.

state.AudioPCI {
	control.1 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 2
		comment.range '0 - 31'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Master Playback Volume'
		value.0 31
		value.1 31
	}
	control.2 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type BOOLEAN
		comment.count 1
		iface MIXER
		name 'Center Playback Switch'
		value true
	}
	control.3 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 1
		comment.range '0 - 31'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Center Playback Volume'
		value 0
	}
	control.4 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 2
		comment.range '0 - 31'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Master Mono Playback Volume'
		value.0 0
		value.1 0
	}
	control.5 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 1
		comment.range '0 - 15'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Tone Control - Bass'
		value 15
	}
	control.6 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 1
		comment.range '0 - 15'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Tone Control - Treble'
		value 15
	}
	control.7 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type BOOLEAN
		comment.count 1
		iface MIXER
		name 'PC Speaker Playback Switch'
		value true
	}
	control.8 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 1
		comment.range '0 - 15'
		iface MIXER
		name 'PC Speaker Playback Volume'
		value 0
	}
	control.9 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 1
		comment.range '0 - 31'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Phone Playback Volume'
		value 0
	}
	control.10 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 2
		comment.range '0 - 63'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Mic Playback Volume'
		value.0 0
		value.1 0
	}
	control.11 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type BOOLEAN
		comment.count 1
		iface MIXER
		name 'Mic Boost (+20dB)'
		value true
	}
	control.12 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 2
		comment.range '0 - 63'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Line Playback Volume'
		value.0 0
		value.1 0
	}
	control.13 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 2
		comment.range '0 - 63'
		iface MIXER
		name 'CD Playback Volume'
		value.0 0
		value.1 0
	}
	control.14 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 2
		comment.range '0 - 63'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Video Playback Volume'
		value.0 0
		value.1 0
	}
	control.15 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 2
		comment.range '0 - 63'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Aux Playback Volume'
		value.0 0
		value.1 0
	}
	control.16 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 2
		comment.range '0 - 63'
		iface MIXER
		name 'PCM Playback Volume'
		value.0 60
		value.1 60
	}
	control.17 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type ENUMERATED
		comment.count 2
		comment.item.0 Mic
		comment.item.1 CD
		comment.item.2 Video
		comment.item.3 Aux
		comment.item.4 Line
		comment.item.5 Mix
		comment.item.6 'Mix Mono'
		comment.item.7 Phone
		iface MIXER
		name 'Capture Source'
		value.0 'Mix Mono'
		value.1 'Mix Mono'
	}
	control.18 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 2
		comment.range '0 - 15'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Capture Volume'
		value.0 0
		value.1 0
	}
	control.19 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type BOOLEAN
		comment.count 1
		iface MIXER
		name 'Mic Capture Switch'
		value true
	}
	control.20 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 1
		comment.range '0 - 15'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Mic Capture Volume'
		value 0
	}
}
state.T22 {
	control.1 {
		comment.access read
		comment.type BYTES
		comment.count 52
		iface CARD
		name 'ICE1724 EEPROM'
		value '3b15501113020080f8c3ffffff000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ffffff'
	}
	control.2 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type ENUMERATED
		comment.count 1
		comment.item.0 '8000'
		comment.item.1 '9600'
		comment.item.2 '11025'
		comment.item.3 '12000'
		comment.item.4 '16000'
		comment.item.5 '22050'
		comment.item.6 '24000'
		comment.item.7 '32000'
		comment.item.8 '44100'
		comment.item.9 '48000'
		comment.item.10 '64000'
		comment.item.11 '88200'
		comment.item.12 '96000'
		comment.item.13 'IEC958 Input'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Multi Track Internal Clock'
		value '48000'
	}
	control.3 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type BOOLEAN
		comment.count 1
		iface MIXER
		name 'Multi Track Rate Locking'
		value false
	}
	control.4 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type BOOLEAN
		comment.count 1
		iface MIXER
		name 'Multi Track Rate Reset'
		value true
	}
	control.5 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type ENUMERATED
		comment.count 1
		comment.item.0 'PCM Out'
		comment.item.1 'H/W In 0'
		comment.item.2 'H/W In 1'
		comment.item.3 'IEC958 In L'
		comment.item.4 'IEC958 In R'
		iface MIXER
		name 'H/W Playback Route'
		value 'PCM Out'
	}
	control.6 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type ENUMERATED
		comment.count 1
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		comment.item.1 'H/W In 0'
		comment.item.2 'H/W In 1'
		comment.item.3 'IEC958 In L'
		comment.item.4 'IEC958 In R'
		iface MIXER
		name 'H/W Playback Route'
		index 1
		value 'PCM Out'
	}
	control.7 {
		comment.access read
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		comment.range '0 - 255'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Multi Track Peak'
		value.0 0
		value.1 0
		value.2 0
		value.3 0
		value.4 0
		value.5 0
		value.6 0
		value.7 0
		value.8 0
		value.9 0
		value.10 0
		value.11 0
		value.12 0
		value.13 0
		value.14 0
		value.15 0
		value.16 0
		value.17 0
		value.18 0
		value.19 0
		value.20 0
		value.21 0
	}
	control.8 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type ENUMERATED
		comment.count 1
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		comment.item.2 'H/W In 1'
		comment.item.3 'IEC958 In L'
		comment.item.4 'IEC958 In R'
		iface MIXER
		name 'IEC958 Playback Route'
		value 'PCM Out'
	}
	control.9 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type ENUMERATED
		comment.count 1
		comment.item.0 'PCM Out'
		comment.item.1 'H/W In 0'
		comment.item.2 'H/W In 1'
		comment.item.3 'IEC958 In L'
		comment.item.4 'IEC958 In R'
		iface MIXER
		name 'IEC958 Playback Route'
		index 1
		value 'PCM Out'
	}
	control.10 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type BOOLEAN
		comment.count 1
		iface MIXER
		name 'IEC958 Output Switch'
		value true
	}
	control.11 {
		comment.access 'read write'
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		comment.count 1
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		device 1
		name 'IEC958 Playback Default'
		value '0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
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		device 1
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		comment.count 1
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		device 1
		name 'IEC958 Playback Pro Mask'
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		name 'DAC Volume'
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	}
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		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
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		name 'DAC Volume'
		index 1
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	}
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		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 1
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		iface MIXER
		name 'ADC Volume'
		index 1
		value 0
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		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 1
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		iface MIXER
		name 'IPGA Analog Capture Volume'
		index 1
		value 0
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		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type ENUMERATED
		comment.count 1
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		comment.item.3 '32kHz'
		iface MIXER
		name Deemphasis
		value '44.1kHz'
	}
}
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		comment.count 1
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		name 'Off-hook Switch'
		value false
	}
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		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type BOOLEAN
		comment.count 1
		iface MIXER
		name 'Caller ID Switch'
		value false
	}
}
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	control.1 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type BOOLEAN
		comment.count 1
		iface MIXER
		name 'Mic Playback Switch'
		value false
	}
	control.2 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 1
		comment.range '0 - 32'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Mic Playback Volume'
		value 0
	}
	control.3 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type BOOLEAN
		comment.count 1
		iface MIXER
		name 'Speaker Playback Switch'
		value true
	}
	control.4 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 2
		comment.range '0 - 151'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Speaker Playback Volume'
		value.0 150
		value.1 150
	}
	control.5 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type BOOLEAN
		comment.count 1
		iface MIXER
		name 'Mic Capture Switch'
		value true
	}
	control.6 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type INTEGER
		comment.count 1
		comment.range '0 - 16'
		iface MIXER
		name 'Mic Capture Volume'
		value 0
	}
	control.7 {
		comment.access 'read write'
		comment.type BOOLEAN
		comment.count 1
		iface MIXER
		name 'Auto Gain Control'
		value true
	}
}

Last edited by broadblues on 28-Jul-2009 at 05:38 PM.

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@Hypex

I only got a webcan recently myself. Fun to play arround with but fiddly to get something good to record. Need to get some money and buy a proper video camera....

Thanks for the nice comment about the youtube link (Oh and thanks to Geri for the same ...)

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broadblues wrote: @RacerX No soundcards found is a worrying line to read... What is the contents of /var/lib/asla/asound.state ? What do you get if you do a "cat /proc/asound/cards" ? Does the output of the above change after doing the aslaconf routine?

The directory /var/lib/alsa is empty

cat /proc/asound/cards results in

--- no soundcards ---

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@RacerX

That's very odd if the drivers are supposed to be working. I presume that alsaconf listed the onboard VIA ? And that you seleted it? It lists on mine even though I don't have the chip though so that may not mean anything. Also odd as you mention the speakers click which normally means the sound card has been initialsed.

I'm out of ideas, have to hope Geri can think of something.

Last edited by broadblues on 29-Jul-2009 at 05:40 AM.

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