I usually don't setup any GUI on my Linux systems. Yesterday I installed with X and Gnome on a spare system for some testing and hit a problem. Right after login the system freezes. The system froze already earlier when I opted to test the sound card on the Welcome screen and when I login with the alternative login choice xterm and shut down it freezes when "saving mixer settings". So, I suspect there's some problem with the onboard sound or with the driver that gets used from X. How's the best way to cope with this? I don't really need sound, how to disable (short of disabling it on the mainboard)? I already commented out the alsactl stuff in modprobe.conf, but this doesn't change anything and the snd_* modules still get loaded. According to modprobe it thinks it's Intel 8x0 while it is an nforce2 chipset. Well, this may be okay for the kernel, I don't know. Can I disable using sound for the X server or tell the kernel not to load any sound modules? Kai -- Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com
On 13/02/06, Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com> wrote:> I usually don't setup any GUI on my Linux systems. Yesterday I installed > with X and Gnome on a spare system for some testing and hit a problem. > Right after login the system freezes. The system froze already earlier > when I opted to test the sound card on the Welcome screen and when I login > with the alternative login choice xterm and shut down it freezes when > "saving mixer settings". So, I suspect there's some problem with the > onboard sound or with the driver that gets used from X. > How's the best way to cope with this? I don't really need sound, how to > disable (short of disabling it on the mainboard)?You could try hacking around in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf ? Obviously make a backup copy first. :) Have a look at the output from... # grep -r snd /etc/* See if that helps you track down where it's being started from. Is sndconfig enabled in the various /etc/rc.N directories? # chkconfig --list | grep -i snd Have you also tried setting the runlevel to 3 and running startx manually to see if the problem still occurs there? Will.
On Monday 13 February 2006 14:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote:> I usually don't setup any GUI on my Linux systems. Yesterday I installed > with X and Gnome on a spare system for some testing and hit a problem. > Right after login the system freezes. The system froze already earlier > when I opted to test the sound card on the Welcome screen and when I login > with the alternative login choice xterm and shut down it freezes when > "saving mixer settings". So, I suspect there's some problem with the > onboard sound or with the driver that gets used from X. > How's the best way to cope with this? I don't really need sound, how to > disable (short of disabling it on the mainboard)? > I already commented out the alsactl stuff in modprobe.conf, but this > doesn't change anything and the snd_* modules still get loaded. According > to modprobe it thinks it's Intel 8x0 while it is an nforce2 chipset. Well, > this may be okay for the kernel, I don't know. Can I disable using sound > for the X server or tell the kernel not to load any sound modules?Disable the sound in the BIOS. Most any motherboard, even the really, really cheap ones will let you do this. I do this routinely on servers just to reduce the number of variables in administration. (why would you want the sound ON in a server?) I also turn off serial/parallel/floppy ports, too, sometimes USB. -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978