Slackware and Kernel 2.6.5

[binary_boy]

Ok, think I FINALLY got this sucker working sweet. After struggling with hard freezes, (tried -mm kernels, nvidia patches from that one guy, can't remember his name, to no avail) no audio, or audio only on some apps, and no gdesklets, I finally got a working setup. I decided to just start over.

Reformated the root partition, laid down a fresh Slack 9.1. Immediately upon finishing that, built a 2.6.5 kernel with ACPI (but not APIC) enabled. Built in nforce options for agp, ide and ethernet. Built core sound support as a module, and built all Alsa options as modules choosing intel8x0 as the device. Built in frame buffer support for console.

Then popped in the Nvidia 1.0-5336 graphics driver. Added the basic lines to modprobe.conf recommended in other threads for Alsa support as well as the basic .asoundrc in my home directory as shown in other threads. Also, downloaded/installed the Graphic EQ equalizer plugin for XMMS, which is very nice. Grab it here http://equ.sourceforge.net/

Now, I'm stable, ide access is blazing, the internet screams, xmms, xine, and mplayer all work using Alsa drivers (i have to start mplayer as gmplayer -ao sdl) but not one single lockup, and I even got gdesklets to work, and with that xmms plugin, the audio sounds awesome too.

Everything went smooth except getting Alsa to play nice. I had to tinker a lot with it. It shouldn't be that hard, but it all works now.

[Atreyu]

Hey - good to hear someone has this working ... any chance you could post your config for getting ALSA to work. This is now my last issue with 2.6.5 ...like you I'm using Slack, but don't really wanna start from scratch (no time) ...

TIA.

[binary_boy]

Kernel config:
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=m

#
# Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
#
CONFIG_SND=m
CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM=m
CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y
CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m
CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y
CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_MEMORY=y
CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_DETECT=y

#
# Generic devices
#
CONFIG_SND_MPU401_UART=m
CONFIG_SND_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_SND_VIRMIDI=m
CONFIG_SND_MTPAV=m
CONFIG_SND_SERIAL_U16550=m
CONFIG_SND_MPU401=m

#
# ISA devices
#
# CONFIG_SND_AD1848 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CS4231 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CS4232 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CS4236 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ES1688 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ES18XX is not set
# CONFIG_SND_GUSCLASSIC is not set
# CONFIG_SND_GUSEXTREME is not set
# CONFIG_SND_GUSMAX is not set
# CONFIG_SND_INTERWAVE is not set
# CONFIG_SND_INTERWAVE_STB is not set
# CONFIG_SND_OPTI92X_AD1848 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_OPTI92X_CS4231 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_OPTI93X is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SB8 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SB16 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SBAWE is not set
# CONFIG_SND_WAVEFRONT is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CMI8330 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_OPL3SA2 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SGALAXY is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SSCAPE is not set

#
# PCI devices
#
CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m
# CONFIG_SND_ALI5451 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ATIIXP is not set
# CONFIG_SND_AU8810 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_AU8820 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_AU8830 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_AZT3328 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_BT87X is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CS46XX is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CS4281 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_KORG1212 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_MIXART is not set
# CONFIG_SND_NM256 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_RME32 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_RME96 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_RME9652 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_HDSP is not set
# CONFIG_SND_TRIDENT is not set
# CONFIG_SND_YMFPCI is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ALS4000 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_CMIPCI is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ENS1370 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ENS1371 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ES1938 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ES1968 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_MAESTRO3 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_FM801 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ICE1712 is not set
# CONFIG_SND_ICE1724 is not set
CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m
# CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SONICVIBES is not set
# CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX is not set
# CONFIG_SND_VX222 is not set

#
# ALSA USB devices
#
# CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO is not set

#
# Open Sound System
#
# CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME is not set

modprobe.conf:

alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia


# ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-interwave
alias snd-card-1 snd-cmipci
options snd-cmipci id="first" enable_midi="1"

# OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
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-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

# I2C module options
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev

.asoundrc:

### .asoundrc for nforce2 apu


pcm.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "nforce"
}

pcm.nforce {
type dmix
ipc_key 1234
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
period_time 0
period_size 0
buffer_size 4096
rate 44100
}
}

ctl.nforce-hw {
type hw
card 0
}

in Xmms, chose Alsa driver and hw:0,0 as device, and PCM as mixer device

need sdl to run mplayer:

$ gmplayer -ao sdl

went to /dev/snd and did

#chmod 775 *

If I think of anything else I did I'll post it