Re: [SLE] Sound, USB lost in 9.3 - Yenta, "BIOS bug?", "Nobody cared?"

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Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 16:59:16 +0100
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AD Marshall wrote:
> Via both upgrading from 9.2 to 9.3 and doing a fresh install from
> scratch, I lost all sound and USB support under SuSE 9.3.
>
> I'm stabbing away in the dark and wondering if anyone can offer either
> quick advice for a fix, a correction to the direction i'm heading now
> or suggestions for a better approach. Thanks in advance. Apologies in
> advance if this is much too long.
>
> I'm now trying to decipher the SuSE Admin manual, Kernel docs and the
> RUTE User's tutorial on how to tweak my kernel/modules to get back
> sound and usb support without breaking anything else.
>
> But I'm very uncertain about whether I'm taking the right direction or
> not. In particular, I've no idea what is meant by the lines under "May
> 3 10:34:50 tpad01 kernel: irq 10: nobody cared!" I looked at the
> kernel/module sources, but still don't understand.
>
> Below are some potentially relevant errors/warnings in
> /var/log/messages. In another post, "Sound, USB lost in 9.3" - HAL,
> D-BUS related?", I provide much more info including the output of
> "hwinfo --all" (as an attachment).
>
> This is all for an old IBM ThinkPad 600x i'm using. SuSE 9.2 worked
> fine. Knoppix and Kanotix still provide full sound and USB support.
>
> Here's the extract from messages -- apologies for length:
> <cut>
<SNAPPED OFF>
I found I had to change /etc/modprobe.d/sound to what I had before the
9.3 fresh install on this A7N8X-E motherboard.
####### ALSA Sound ##########
####alias char-major-116 snd
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-11 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd-intel8x0 id="CH"

USB, likewise on both upgrades from 9.2 and this fresh install, I've
made up scripts I run manually on the x86_64 laptop, e.g
modprobe of usbhid, uhci-hcd, ohci-hcd, ehci-hcd and usb-storage, then
"mount /proc/bus/usb".

On this box, usb-storage, usblp and usbserial were all loaded with
usbcore, but "mount /proc/bus/usb" was necessary, "mount -av" didn't
bring it on from /etc/fstab. Checking just, I found other modules not
installed, but my USB IDE HD and card reader were all accessible.
barrabas:/ftp/May05 # lsmod|grep usb
usblp 12672 0
usb_storage 65088 2
usbserial 30696 0

barrabas:/ftp/May05 # modprobe usbhid
FATAL: Module usbhid not found.
barrabas:/ftp/May05 # modprobe ohci-hcd
barrabas:/ftp/May05 # modprobe uhci-hcd
barrabas:/ftp/May05 # modprobe ehci-hcd

The manual doesn't mention HAL, but Anders in a recent post told me that
udev does the hotplugging and HAL only does the tracking - if I
understood correctly. As the SuSE kernels gave the same problem, I built
a new 2.6.12-rc3 from kernel.org with the same results.

# USB devices
# CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO is not set
# CONFIG_SND_USB_USX2Y is not set
# USB support
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y
CONFIG_USB=y
# CONFIG_USB_DEBUG is not set
# Miscellaneous USB options
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
# CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH is not set
# CONFIG_USB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is not set
CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND=y
# CONFIG_USB_OTG is not set
# USB Host Controller Drivers
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=m
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_SPLIT_ISO=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT=y
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=m
# CONFIG_USB_OHCI_BIG_ENDIAN is not set
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=m
CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m
# USB Input Devices
CONFIG_USB_HID=y
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y

I have a feeling that mount is the problem as on a number of attempts at
installing, the DVD went away, it would freeze installing packages. I
got another DVD reader from another box where I'd done a complete
install of Mandrake LE 2005 and on the second or third try, it all went
through. Installing packages in YaST, similar problem, so I manually
mounted the DVD on /xxx, a few packages installed OK from the command
line, then it said the checkinstall rpm was not an rpm, it couldn't read
it, umount/mount and it installed fine. I think I also saw mount
problems on the x86_64 laptop.
Regards
Sid.

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