1st time, video problems, newbe, please help

[jakwi]

Well I figured it out.

I installed xorg and during the setup I realized that I had set the mouse up wrong. I had accepted the default instead of ps2. At the moment I'm using the VESA driver.

I'm writing now from the gnome desktop. with firefox. Although I can't seem to figure out how to set a link up for firfox on the desktop

I also can't seem to get kde setup, but I'm still working on that. and then my sound card doesn't seem to work.

Thanks to everyone for the help. I've been wracking my brain about this all day.

I'm sure I'll figure it all out as I go along.

thanks

Jason

[junkman4547]

If you have Gnome, Sarge also install KDE by default. To use KDE, at the login, click on session and choose KDE, set it as default if you want.

[jakwi]

Just a followup,

I'm not sure what I did exactly, but I was in aptitude trying to update kde so that it would appear in sessions. I wasn't getting that option at the graphical login. Anyway somehow or another I deleted gnome. So then when I rebooted. I didn't get a graphical login any more. I could login, and then type startx and kde would start. That seemed ok except I didn't understand what had happened. I was trying to update kde in aptitude, not delete gnome.

So while I was in kde, I tried to install firefox again. I don't know what I did, but it killed my inet connection. I rebooted and it appears that dhcp was failing.

I decided to take the box to work so that my friend who knows linux could help. He played with it for awhile with no luck and we decided that a fresh linux install would be best. So that's what we did, Since it was at work and the connection is faster. We decided to do a net install of debian to get the latest and greatest.

It worked like a champ. It booted into the gui first time. So in the end I think I've learned a fair amount, and especially that the net install is the way to go.

I am still struggling with a couple of issues though

1: I'm using the VESA driver for video. I found http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/ and I downloaded what I believe are the appropriate drivers for my mobo's video, but I don't have any idea on how to install them. Any guidance here would be appreceated.

2: I can't get sound to work. I ran an apt-get alsa-core, but when I go into sound config in kde and try to set it up, it claims that I have no sound cards installed. I have onboard sound on my MSI KM4M-V mobo. I've done some googling on this and found this post
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=363250

I tried everything in this post, but I've had no luck

Thanks again for all the help, I feel like everyday I get a better handle on it.

[antidrugue]

1: I'm using the VESA driver for video. I found http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/ and I downloaded what I believe are the appropriate drivers for my mobo's video, but I don't have any idea on how to install them. Any guidance here would be appreceated.

Did you try the "via" driver, that's the one tailored for this "s3 integrated" card.

2: I can't get sound to work. I ran an apt-get alsa-core, but when I go into sound config in kde and try to set it up, it claims that I have no sound cards installed. I have onboard sound on my MSI KM4M-V mobo.

Did you unmute everything in alsamixer or gnome-alsamixer? Normally sound works right away once you unmute it, and pump up the volume.

Still it depends. Which kernel you choose during install? If you have the default 2.4 kernel, you will have to install alsa-modules for it:

apt-get install alsa-modules-$(uname -r)

If you installed with a 2.6 kernel, than alsa-modules are built-in, so you just have to configure alsamixer properly.

[brokndodge]

type

uname -r

and post it's output

[jakwi]

Did you try the "via" driver, that's the one tailored for this "s3 integrated" card.



Did you unmute everything in alsamixer or gnome-alsamixer? Normally sound works right away once you unmute it, and pump up the volume.

Still it depends. Which kernel you choose during install? If you have the default 2.4 kernel, you will have to install alsa-modules for it:

apt-get install alsa-modules-$(uname -r)

If you installed with a 2.6 kernel, than alsa-modules are built-in, so you just have to configure alsamixer properly.

Hi, well I did as you had suggested. I'm pretty sure I had also run the apt-get install alsa-modules-$(uname -r) line before, but I did it anyway for good measure. I'm going to try changing the driver to via as well, but I figured I'd post this first.
I posted my results here.

Don-Quijote:/home/jakwi# uname -r
2.4.27-2-386
Don-Quijote:/home/jakwi# apt-get install alsa-modules-$(uname -r)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
alsa-modules-2.4.27-2-386 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Don-Quijote:/home/jakwi#

The error I get when kde boots up is a window with a
titlebar that says Error - artsmessage
Soundserver fatal error:
cpu overload. aborting.

I click ok and it goes away.

I also typed lspci

Don-Quijote:/home/jakwi# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX [Linksys EtherFast 10/100] (rev 25)
0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01)
Don-Quijote:/home/jakwi#

and lsmod

Don-Quijote:/home/jakwi# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
snd-seq-oss            21760   0  (autoclean) (unused)
snd-seq-midi            3008   0  (autoclean) (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event      2976   0  (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi]
snd-seq                32048   2  (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-via82xx            11840   2  (autoclean)
snd-pcm-oss            34048   0  (autoclean) (unused)
snd-mixer-oss          11000   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-ac97-codec         48280   0  (autoclean) [snd-via82xx]
snd-pcm                50216   1  (autoclean) [snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss snd-ac97-codec]
snd-timer              12548   0  (autoclean) [snd-seq snd-pcm]
gameport                1388   0  (autoclean) [snd-via82xx]
snd-mpu401-uart         2800   0  (autoclean) [snd-via82xx]
snd-rawmidi            11552   0  (autoclean) [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device          3588   0  (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd                    28260   1  (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
snd-page-alloc          4296   0  (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-via82xx snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd]
soundcore               3268   6  (autoclean) [snd]
floppy                 44120   0  (autoclean)
input                   3040   0  (autoclean)
apm                     8428   1  (autoclean)
parport_pc             19432   1  (autoclean)
lp                      5540   0  (autoclean)
parport                21608   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
af_packet              11048   1  (autoclean)
ehci-hcd               14764   0  (unused)
usb-uhci               19472   0  (unused)
usbcore                52268   1  [ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
ide-scsi                8272   0
via82cxxx               9256   1
via-rhine              10960   1
mii                     1952   0  [via-rhine]
tulip                  35168   0  (unused)
crc32                   2848   0  [via-rhine tulip]
ide-disk               12480   0
ide-detect               288   0  (unused)
ide-cd                 27104   0
cdrom                  26212   0  [ide-cd]
ide-core               91864   0  [ide-scsi via82cxxx ide-disk ide-detect ide-cd]
rtc                     5768   0  (autoclean)
ext3                   65388   2  (autoclean)
jbd                    34628   2  (autoclean) [ext3]
sd_mod                 10764   6  (autoclean)
sata_via                2200   3  (autoclean)
libata                 21732   0  (autoclean) [sata_via]
scsi_mod               86084   3  (autoclean) [ide-scsi sd_mod sata_via libata]
unix                   12752 128  (autoclean)
Don-Quijote:/home/jakwi#

[jakwi]

Oh I forgot to insert the error I get during boot up is a line that says

udev requires kernal ...>7.2.6.12 notstarted

I copied it as best I could as it scrolls by pretty fast

[jakwi]

Just another short followup.

I tried the via driver and it worked first time no problems. I guess I just forgot to try it after the initial fiasco, still working on sound though

Thanks for the help

Jason