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Jesse · Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 465 Location: Auckland, NZ

Hi Barry,

I am having sound card issues with Dingo, the motherboard has a sound card that has no BIOS disable ability, this sound card gets detected ok, but its not vrey good sound so don't want to use it, instead I have some USB speakers that play sound quite nicely, and I am having trouble getting them working with Dingo.

Initially following through the wizard choosing usb, nothing happens, ALSA Wizard does modify the /etc/modprobe.conf, but changes no drivers.
But I discovered that if I kill the absvolume, before running the wizard, that it succeeds at setting the usb-speakers as the sound card, and I hear the music.
But then when I reboot, the boot scripts destroy my usb speakers setting, and I am back with motherboard sound card.

how do we go about fixing this one up?

Jesse

earlytv · Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 128 Location: Racine WI USA

Alpha 6 finds all the hard drive partions as sda4, sda6 ect. I have no sata device only a IDE hard drive. So when I want to do a full install of alpha 6 on /dev/hda6 it says not there but /dev/sda6 is and it installs. Now if I use alpha 6 Grub alpha 6 boots but other 3 puppy do not. If I use Grub from one of other puppy they boot, alpha 6 does not?

error lines

kernel panic-not syncing: vfs: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)

What did I do wrong?????

GeoW · Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2008, 11:39 Post_subject:

Hopefully, you just need to mosify menu.lst.

For the two lines between the title and the boot
for each Puppy:

The first part of the lines - before the / - is for grub,
so my entries all say (hd0,0).

The part after the / is for puppy, so:

for Puppy 3.01 I have PMEDIA=idehd PDEV1=hda1
for Puppy 3.96 I have PMEDIA=idesd PDEV1=sda1

Hope this helps,

GeoW

earlytv · Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 128 Location: Racine WI USA

Here is at bootup a edit of a grub line that alpha 6 puts down.

root (hd0,5)
kernal /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 ro vga=normal

only change other puppies do is sda6 becomes hda6 all the rest is
same.

If I let 2.17 run grub and all is HDAx and then try to edit just the alpha line to sda6 it says no such dev I cant do that????
Just another software chunk a hardware guy ???????????????????????

GeoW · Posted: Mon 25 Feb 2008, 17:13 Post_subject:

No, only the part after the / the first part is for grub.

GeoW

earlytv · Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 128 Location: Racine WI USA

I have 2 menu.lst files in GRUB dir, one that old puppy set up and another alpha 6 set up. I copied from the alpha 6 file from "title line thru kernel line" for drive alpha on and put it into old puppy file same spot. Saved out file and now all boot just fine.
All hda6 now became sda6 only 2 places? When you try on screen at boot to edit GRUB you change only one of the 2 so it dont work.

Thanks all.

EDIT
JUST FOUND SYSTEM INFO ON ALPHA 6 and it says CD and HARD drives are SCSI drives????????? THEY ARE IDE DRIVES. IS THIS WHY THEY COME UP AS sda6 INSTEAD OF hda6??????????????????

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

cecc · Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 38

Hi Barry,

Thank you and other guys. Dingo alpha6 is realy nice and good.

linuxcbon · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 698

Can you please add libx264 to ffmpeg Smile

disciple · Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2008, 18:33 Post_subject:

Ah - someone somewhere said that they can get their sound to work if every time they boot Dingo they kill absvolume and then run the alsa wizard. I tried this and it works for me too. What could be causing the problem here?

Also, the bug I mentioned with Xine seems to be an intermittent problem, as last time I booted Dingo it was doing it again, even after playing files.

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

I presume that absvolume is not behaving if the sound is not setup. It probably needs dev/mixer to be closed somewhere. I think that the alsa wizard requires exclusive access to the device. This would fail if absvolume was hanging on to it. I'll have a look at the weekend.

Saturn · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 146

Hey something is terribly screwed up in pup get it all ways refuses to install libs or will say they are missing.... i'm terrible at compiling stuff in the terminal so that's out of reach... so far i've been unsuccessfull in installing vlc, xine, wine, and others

they all have somthing missing

is this because it's a alpha build?
because i could'nt install anything in 3.12 either

any ideas folks?

Any help will be appreciated in advance

disciple · Posted: Sat 01 Mar 2008, 00:23 Post_subject:

HairWill - the sound does get set up automatically, it just doesn't work.

disciple · Posted: Sat 01 Mar 2008, 00:27 Post_subject:

I was just thinking:
There is no gui to replace partview to display disk usage (or did I miss something). But even if we don't have a gui, why not have a menu entry and/or a thing lauched by clicking on the free memory applet, that just opens a terminal and runs whatever command tells you the disk usage? It would be better than nothing surely.

BTW does anybody know why Seamonkey does not obey the GTK font setting - even when you have the special line required for Firefox and Thunderbird to display it?

lluamco · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 193 Location: Banyoles, Spain

I have had troubles connecting to the network using RTL8187 wireless driver with WEP encryption in Dingo alpha 6. In short, the network wizard scans the available networks, but when acquiring an IP address using dhcpcd, the provided IP is wrong and thus the network unavailable. I have tried also to use the series of commands that work OK in puppy 2.16, with the same result: NO network.