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
AD Marshall wrote: 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. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks