December 2006 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Fedora Core 6 kernel source???

by ken jones

I solved my Fedora Core 6 sound card problem. I found and rpm'd these files: alsa-driver-1.0.13-56.fc6.at.i386.rpm alsa-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6-1.0.13-56.fc6.at.i586.rpm For some reason alsa files are not part of: <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/> Similarly my 'yum' can not find them. Now I can not remember where I did find them. Why was this so difficult? What is it that I do not understand about the Fedora packages? Some folks told me that ALSA was part of Core 6. I was using ALSA with Core 4. I thank you all for your efforts :-) Ken Jones

Dec. 9, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Further info on my Core 6 problems

by Chuck Anderson

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:23:51PM -0500, ken jones wrote: > When I first installed CORE 6 it booted just fine. > Now it hangs and gives the message snipped below. > ---------------start snip---------- > No prebuilt modules for: Fedora - 6 linux-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.i686-SMP. > Trying to automatically build the driver modules. (This requires a C > compiler and proper kernel sources to be installed) > > WARNING - Missing file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h. The > cause of this is usually a missing or unconfigured kernel source tree > (and sometimes an incorrect directory or symbolic link.) > However, proper /boot/config-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 was found. > ---------------end snip----------- These messages are not from standard Fedora Core packages and the snippet you gave does not indicate their origin, so it is hard to give specific help. What third party kernel device drivers do you have installed? SMP refers to the multiprocessor kernel, which in FC6 is no longer separate from the uniprocessor kernel. If you read the Release Notes at: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc6/en_US/sn-Kernel.html#id2542… it describes how to build kernel modules.

Dec. 6, 2006

Further info on my Core 6 problems

by ken jones

When I first installed CORE 6 it booted just fine. Now it hangs and gives the message snipped below. If I do [CNTRL C] it finishes. It says that it can not find Linux/version.h where it thinks it should be. I have erased the kernel-devel package. Why is it trying to compile? It is referring to a SMP version. I do not see the string SMP anywhere in the REDHAT download page <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/>. What do you think is going on? Ken Jones ---------------start snip---------- No prebuilt modules for: Fedora - 6 linux-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.i686-SMP. Trying to automatically build the driver modules. (This requires a C compiler and proper kernel sources to be installed) WARNING - Missing file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h. The cause of this is usually a missing or unconfigured kernel source tree (and sometimes an incorrect directory or symbolic link.) However, proper /boot/config-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 was found. ---------------end snip----------- As I said. At this point the little spinning icon is busy. The progression bar is not progressing. CNTRL-C initiales a successful finish of the boot. Ken Jones

Dec. 6, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Fedora Core 6 kernel source???

by Chuck Anderson

What happens when you use system-config-soundcard (On the GNOME menu as System->Adminstration->Soundcard Detection)? On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:38:25PM -0500, ken jones wrote: > [root@kjones-fedora alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a]# /sbin/lsmod | grep snd Ok, so none of ALSA is loaded at the moment. > [root@kjones-fedora alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a]# /sbin/lspci -vvv > 02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X > Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device 1003 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This should be supported out-of-the-box on Fedora Core. > Back around Core3 and Core4 I used "soundon" and "soundoff" from > <http://www.4front-tech.com/>. > That is where this all started. Open Sound System does not work > either. Here is what happens when I > type 'soundon'. OSS/Free in the Linux kernel is obsolete and there is no reason to use it anymore. I have no experience with the commercial version of OSS, since I have never had any need to use it.

Dec. 5, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Mythtv Packages

by Chuck Noyes

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:47:50 -0500 Clint Moyer <cdmoyer(a)charter.net> wrote: > Hmmm, I'm running it on an Athlon 64 and a Sempron. Got a link? > > > ---- Chuck Noyes <vze284qe(a)verizon.net> wrote: > > > > Oh.... > > > > I can't upgrade to 'edgy' because the kernel that is distributed on > > the edgy CD causes my system to kernel-panic. According to the > > ubuntu website, it appears to be a known problem that the edgy > > kernel has with AMD Athlon systems. > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug Clint, see the link below. There seems to be lots of people, most are running an Athlon of some flavor (I'm using an XP1500), and all are using the VIA chipset. https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/61848 -- -Chuck

Dec. 5, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Mythtv Packages

by Clint Moyer

Hmmm, I'm running it on an Athlon 64 and a Sempron. Got a link? ---- Chuck Noyes <vze284qe(a)verizon.net> wrote: > > Oh.... > > I can't upgrade to 'edgy' because the kernel that is distributed on the > edgy CD causes my system to kernel-panic. According to the ubuntu > website, it appears to be a known problem that the edgy kernel has with > AMD Athlon systems.

Dec. 5, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Fedora Core 6 kernel source???

by ken jones

Here are the important results of lsmod and lspci. [root@kjones-fedora alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a]# /sbin/lsmod | grep snd [root@kjones-fedora alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a]# /sbin/lspci -vvv 02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] EMU10k1X Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device 1003 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 (500ns min, 5000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 3 Region 0: I/O ports at dc40 [size=32] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 02:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs [SB Live! Value] Input device controller Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device 1003 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 Region 0: I/O ports at dc70 [size=8] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Back around Core3 and Core4 I used "soundon" and "soundoff" from <http://www.4front-tech.com/>. That is where this all started. Open Sound System does not work either. Here is what happens when I type 'soundon'. -------------start Open Sound System snip------------- [root@kjones-fedora alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a]# soundon Relinking OSS kernel modules for "2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 SMP mod_unload 586 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.1" This may take few moments - please stand by... OSS build environment set up for REGPARM kernels Warning: Cannot locate the Linux kernel development package for Linux kernel version 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 Please install the kernel development package if linking the OSS modules fails. The kernel development package may be called kernel-devel, kernel-smp-devel, kernel-sources, kernel-headers or something like that. Please refer to the documentation of your Linux distribution if there are any difficulties in installing the kernel/driver development environment. Assuming that you are using Fedora Core 5 or later the right kernel source package (RPM) is probably called kernel-smp-devel. Building module osscore Failed to compile OSS make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2849.fc6/build M=/usr/lib/oss/build modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686' make: *** [default] Error 2 Relinking the OSS kernel modules failed [root@kjones-fedora alsa-driver-1.0.9rc4a]# -----------------end OSS snip----------- (Why do my messages to WLUG have grey fonts instead of black?) Ken Jones

Dec. 5, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Mythtv Packages

by Andre Lehovich

--- Chuck Noyes <vze284qe(a)verizon.net> wrote: > I assume that the sources.list file is processed top to bottom by apt. Sorta. Apt always pulls in the version of the package with the highest release number. If that version is available from more than one repository, apt downloads from the one listed first. So you should sort the list by download time, fastest to slowest. My sources.list looks something like this: deb http://debian.example.org/debian testing main deb http://debian.example.org/debian testing/updates main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main deb http://security.debian.org/debian testing/updates main This ensures that if an updated package is already available from my local mirror I get a fast download from there. But if it hasn't yet arrived, I still get it by a slower download from the main server. --Andre ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com

Dec. 5, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Mythtv Packages

by Chuck Noyes

Oh.... I can't upgrade to 'edgy' because the kernel that is distributed on the edgy CD causes my system to kernel-panic. According to the ubuntu website, it appears to be a known problem that the edgy kernel has with AMD Athlon systems. On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:58:00 -0500 maitre(a)ccs.neu.edu wrote: > Starting with Ubuntu Edgy the mythtv packages are in the > distribution. If yo can manage to upgrade to edgy i would recommend > that track. If you can't and are stuck at dapper, then add the follow > package repos in your sources.list files. > > ### mythtv #### > deb http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~superm1 dapper main > deb-src http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~superm1 dapper main > > - brad > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 05:06:33PM -0500, Chuck Noyes wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm trying to build a Mythtv box, and I'd like to know where I can > > find either the 0.19 or 0.20 Mythtv packages for Ubuntu "Dapper". > > I've looked around and all I can find are the 0.18 packages. The > > 0.19 version has been out for a while and I guess the 0.20 version > > is still sort of 'bleeding' edge. So there probably isn't a > > "Dapper" package for that yet. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Dec. 5, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Mythtv Packages

by Chuck Noyes

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:58:00 -0500 maitre(a)ccs.neu.edu wrote: I assume that the sources.list file is processed top to bottom by apt. So, do I want to be sure to put these repos at the top of the list? What does apt do if it finds a package in 2 different repos? -Chuck > Starting with Ubuntu Edgy the mythtv packages are in the > distribution. If yo can manage to upgrade to edgy i would recommend > that track. If you can't and are stuck at dapper, then add the follow > package repos in your sources.list files. > > ### mythtv #### > deb http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~superm1 dapper main > deb-src http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~superm1 dapper main > > - brad > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 05:06:33PM -0500, Chuck Noyes wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm trying to build a Mythtv box, and I'd like to know where I can > > find either the 0.19 or 0.20 Mythtv packages for Ubuntu "Dapper". > > I've looked around and all I can find are the 0.18 packages. The > > 0.19 version has been out for a while and I guess the 0.20 version > > is still sort of 'bleeding' edge. So there probably isn't a > > "Dapper" package for that yet. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Dec. 5, 2006