On Tuesday 27 March 2001 09:37, Cleary, Mike wrote:
A while back you had a problem during bootup with modprobe errors on sound stuff, and the usbmgr failure. Could you tell me how you finally got this sorted out? I have run into this problem again.
I haven't, yet. On my beast I have disabled USB at every setting.... no keyboard, no mouse, no legacy audio, no sb emulation, no joystick, nothing. All references to any USB capability have been disabled. The J12 jumper has been set to enable an external sound card, an SB PCI512. I have NOT enabled USB in the 2.2.18 kernel. Not even modules. Nothing... nada,.... zip. I have set the nis to 'no'. Despite that, when I boot I get a msg about usb-uhci.c firing right after the parport polling of lp1 (should be my parallel zip250 drive) fails. usb-uhci.c fires again followed by a msg about the "high bandwidth mode selected". When the services start I get a msg about the failure on the nis_cachemgr, even though I have turned off everthing relating to the nis that I can find in rc.config and the kernel config. I also get a usbmgr failure message. Neither service starts, as a message at the end of the boot indicates when it lists failed services. So, I don't think anything is really wrong. You can check /var/log/messages to see what is happening during boot. JLK
I reinstalled 7.1 and chose only the 2.4 kernel. After installation I built a new kernel to try & get my joystick working. The "stock" /lib/modules/2.4xxx directory did not have many modules in it - mostly sound related stuff.
I changed the processor choice to AMD, made sure that sound was included in the kernel, along w/ picking my specific soundcard, etc. Built the kernel no problem, ran make modules, make bzlilo and make modules_install. All seemed to go just fine. Then I rebooted. It couldn't find the sound modules, couldn't find Ipchains (I probably missed that in the config), and the usbmgr failed (I had turned on usb since I have a usb scanner). I looked in /lib/modules and found a new 2.4 directory - again without much in it....???
So I tried copying the original .config to /usr/src/linux and made only a couple minor changes. While running xconfig I noticed that the proper joystick modules were already chosen as modules. I thought this was odd since the only modules I could find in the "stock" /lib/modules/2.4xxx directory were soundcard related. In fact there was a LOT of stuff chosen as modules in the original .config. Why don't any of these show up in lib/modules/2.4xxx? Anyway, after my few minor changes I rebuilt the kernel, etc. Still the same problem.
What is the deal w/ kernels & modules in 7.1? This used to be so simple.... When you do a fresh install & choose 1 kernel, you get three kernel choices in the boot menu - all three booting the same kernel image. Why? This is confusing.
TIA,
Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Cleary_Mike@emc.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ "We are born wet, naked and hungry......then things get worse."