My soundcard (nVidia MCP 51) was working great, and now I've broken something! cat /proc/asound/cards gives:

$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xfebd8000 irq 233

But aplay -l gives:

$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:222: no soundcards found...

What's ...

I did some more thinking about it, and then I found how to fix and recreate the problem.

Let me define a cold boot versus a full power off. A cold boot would be shutting the system down into "power off" mode, but the 5V power on the motherboard is still there. Pulling the plug from the wall is a ...

Not sure exactly what the problem is, but here are a couple of possibilities:

1. Your CD didn't burn correctly. If you don't mind burning a second CD and chucking the one you have, the problem might be there.

2. The kernel hits an oops very, very early. This doesn't happen a lot. Try putting ...

I have a dualboot with Windows XP and SuSE Linux 10 and ... the Gentoo Partition.
Hi! Welcome to the gentoo forums, by the way. Let's see... you actually have lots of options, so I'm trying to figure out which one you are looking for. If you have some extra space on a disk, or an extra disk you ...

I was ready to get forcedeth 0.48 working on my Asus A8N-VM/CSM, so I downloaded the 2006.0 x86 LiveCD. But it didn't behave any differently than forcedeth 0.35. :-( I read on the nvnews forum that cold-booting the machine from Win XP would fix it. Still didn't work. forcedeth recognizes the device ...

Okay, so if I found the right info on the web, your flatscreen is connected to your DVI, and you have S-Video out. Is this how you are set up for dual-display?

Now, what is it you want to do, run the nvidia driver in spanning mode? (X just sees one double-wide screen)

Or do you want to run X on ...

Which video card do you have?

piranha2001 wrote:Hopefully they will find a fix soon:
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa- ... hp?id=1458

And there are some related bugs:
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa- ... hp?id=1678
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa- ... hp?id=1415

Note that I am using the amd64 platform, so some of these requires ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64".
Also, s/pink/orange/. Can't tell in this light. :-P

Using 1.0.10_rc3 I get sound with "clicks" at around 30Hz. (Sounds like the interrupt handler is broken. Is this the "crackling" that needs modprobe snd ...

Okay, I found this [topic=414308]topic[/topic] about my specific motherboard. It's still active, so I'll go over there.

Can you recommend a cheapish sound card that will give me full surround in Linux using Alsa.
Yeah.

It looks like there aren't any. (that I know of) (maybe a Creative XFi, but that's not a cheapish!)

Okay, that's just my $0.02 on that. Sorry, ignore it since I didn't even search the web.

What I ...

I'm really curious as to if this actually would work. If you do this, please let me know how it worked out. Good luck! I don't know if I already said, I have a working amd64 install. But shouldn't the amd64 livecd work? (It shouldn't crash on sata_nv.) Plus, yeah, this other question about ...

Yeah, so I want to make the jump from x86 to amd64. A little reading has led me to this process, AFAIK:

1. Get the system working in x86, especially the network driver.
2. Build an amd64 kernel.
3. Boot into amd64 kernel, still have an x86 filesystem. (Will this work??)
4. Change the CHOST, etc.
5 ...

In case the original link goes away, here's the contents
I have an Nvidia FX 5200 with TV-out.

There are multiple layouts in this configurationfile.

#Xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "GeForce_FX_5200_AGP_TV"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" Above "Screen0"
InputDevice ...

BUT...

Don't run their installer. Run ./NVIDIA... -x as a non-root user (to be safe). Then you can get their X config tool out from the files it dumps.

See the nVidia guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml

Although the universal CD contains the latest release (2005.1 right now), the packages in 2005.1 still get updated pretty frequently. So the universal CD isn't rebuilt every night... that means it could be slightly out of date. But it will have a really recent kernel, etc.

Yeah, don't burn the ...

I found some more info on device descriptor read/64, error -71, take a look at url]http://www.spinics.net/lists/usb/msg02644.html[/url]. However, when I plugged and unplugged the device a few times, it didn't get the error anymore, so I'm not going to recompile my kernel just to get usbcore as a ...

Still can't get the prism2_usb driver to work with my Netgear MA111 wireless usb adapter.

I got the same results on an x86 machine. No wlan0 after I plug in the usb device.

# dmesg | tail
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
eth0: Davicom DM9102 at pci0000:02:07.0 ...

Well, yeah, but shouldn't it be listed as a dependency so that it's emerged automatically?

Hi,

Gentoo is in a class all by itself for being customizable. So I'd say, you want to end up using Gentoo. But how you get there, well, that's different for every box.

Knoppix is designed to run straight from the CD. No install needed. That's kind of what a Gentoo liveCD does, except in Gentoo it ...

Hi, I emerged splashutils but it failed here:
CC splash.o
In file included from splash.h:144,
from splash.c:27:
ttf.h:3:22: ft2build.h: No such file or directory
ttf.h:4:30: freetype/ftoutln.h: No such file or directory
ttf.h:5:31: freetype/ttnameid.h: No such file or directory
In file included ...

What you're looking for is the program "badblocks"

man badblocks

Or http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/badblocks.8.html

Although I've never run it on an entire block device (it's meant to be run on partitions) it should work.

You can configure SMART data with smartmontools:

man smartctl ...

/dev/psaux mice (PS/2 mice) do not support hotplugging. Can you describe your computer setup a little more? Do you have a USB port on both computers? If so, could you try plugging the KVM switch into USB ports on both computers and not use the PS/2 mouse port?

You could also try compiling the psaux ...

Hi, this may not be really helpful, but my A8N-VM/CSM motherboard, with an Athlon 64 X2 4400+ and the 0506 bios gets the same kernel message (I am running 2.6.12-r6):

I was going to guess that your keyboard was a USB keyboard. Maybe I'm wrong. If you're using a USB keyboard, can you try borrowing a PS/2 keyboard to see if that one will not die on you?

Can you post the output from /var/log/kernel/current when it freezes? That may be tricky without a keyboard, but ...