[mythtv-users] Re:nForce2 motherboards

[Sean]

Ian: Thanks for the ultra-quick response!
There is NO sound. Not from the system. Not from mplayer. Not from the 
notifications panel. Nowhere. Technically this should all be Kool & the 
Gang, but it isn't. That is why I was asking about the 2.4.22 kernel.

The first 4 times I installed Redhat (noobish, I know installing from 
the ground up) I went for the ALSA drivers through apt-get. The trouble 
is that apt-get seems to call for an older kernel version for one of the 
ALSA pieces and the install does not conclude, nor can apt-get install 
anything else after the case (how do you "reset" apt-get? ).  I have 
seen several mentions of this around the internet leading me away from 
using apt-get for this install (boy does it rock for everything else 
though...).

I am not married to Redhat in the least. I would gladly use another 
distro, but the easier to setup the better. Is there an updated release 
of Redhat that includes the 2.4.22 kernel? If I update to 2.4.22 
successfully, can I merely load the config file from the Axel's kernel 
to the new one?

I will post the current module.conf file as soon as I can.

Thank you for all the help and advice thus far!

Ian Forde wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 12:48, Sean wrote:
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>>I can't hear audio. None at all. From system start-up to shut down not a 
>>peep. I have tried nearly everything suggested from installing ALSA 
>>(which gives a error on depmod about unrecognized symbol for snd.o), to 
>>installing NVIDIA's trash (shame the software is so bad for such a good 
>>chipset), to trying to get the Redhat default of i810_audio to work 
>>(identified on startup, but NO sound). I have checked the mixer settings 
>>and nothing says its muted (this would be in the panels, I don't know 
>>the console command to check it).
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>
>Okay - to get sound working... first of all, don't use Myth to debug
>sound problems.  I'm serious!  Start with something simpler, like xmms
>or mpg321 first.  If you can get sound through them, then you'll have a
>chance at getting sound through mythtv.  Now... here goes...
>
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>>So, coming back to the subject, here is what I am using:
>>
>>Shuttle MN31N MOBO
>>512MB RAM
>>Athlon 2500+
>>Redhat 9.0 (upgraded to Axial's Kernel via apt-get)
>>
>>To Vinton: Did you have audio upon original install before upgrade to 
>>2.4.22?
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>Don't do the kernel upgrade to 2.4.22 yet.  Stick with Axel's kernel. 
>Don't build ALSA from source.  You'll get the "unrecognized symbol"
>error that (and believe me on this) Red Hat is aware of and doesn't
>really care about fixing at this point.  Use the ALSA rpms available
>using apt-get.  (You did install apt-get according to Jarod's HOWTO,
>right? ;) )
>
>Now, you'll need to fix your /etc/modules.conf.
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>>To ANYONE: How do I go about upgrading the kernel to 2.4.22? I tried 
>>following the instructions but was still having trouble.
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>Don't do it yet.  Especially if you're new to Linux.  OTOH, if you've
>already got it working...
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>>Some more info:
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>>my modules.conf file shows the i810_audio module plus the 2 extra 
>>instruction lines bleow it in accordance with suggestion that I have 
>>seen that this would solve the problem.
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>You're going to need to post your /etc/modules.conf here...
>
>	-I
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