From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from services.tjfisher.co.uk ([195.166.151.202] helo=smtp.tjfisher.co.uk) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DJmFr-0000jq-00 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 01:42:07 -0400 Received: from [192.168.3.2] (helo=oulaptop) by smtp.tjfisher.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJmIB-0006jy-8r; Fri, 08 Apr 2005 06:44:34 +0100 Message-ID: <05e701c53bfd$a33f0c70$0203a8c0@oulaptop> From: "Toby Fisher" To: "Sean McMahon" , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <000701c53b9a$f10387f0$77ac7682@azwaterDOM.wr.usgs.gov> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 06:41:09 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) Subject: Re: speakers and shutdown that used to work and now don't work as well X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 05:42:07 -0000 Ok, well if the system is that old it's very unlikely to have acpi, so you may want to have a look at your kernel config and re-compile with the correct apm options enabled - you need to be aware that stock kernels don't seem to enable apm and acpi, I think this is because they can make some systems crash that don't have them. Hth Toby ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean McMahon" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 6:55 PM Subject: speakers and shutdown that used to work and now don't work as well >I really couldn't think of a better subject line. I upgraded a gateway 400 >MHZ > system to debian sarge speakup kernel 2.4.27. So far, these are the two > things > I've noticed. Sound works but only with headphones and another pair of > speakers > I have. Sound does not come out of the speakers I used to use when this > system > was windows. The speakers are the kind with a sub-woofer and I believe > the > cable connecting them to the speaker jack is the digital cable. They > didn't > work on my other linux or windows system either but I figured it was the > type of > soundcard. What's going on here? Is this some gateway propriotary thing > going > on here? The sound under Windows was registered as a creative > soundblaster 64 > or 128D depending on which drivers I was using. Under Linux it reagisters > as > the ensonic S1371 chipset. I figure that is correct sinse sound with > other > speakers works. I'm using os sound modules. My second annoyance is the > computer doesn't fully shut off when I shutdown. It used to do that > almost all > the time but not always. I've shut the system down twice, and so far, it > is > consistant. Power to the drives powers down, but you can still ear the > fans > wering and you really have to hold in that power button to get the system > off. > One thing I noticed from the bootup messages is the system apic couldn't > be > enabled because the bios was dectected as pre-1998. However, Linux was > able to > enable it's own apic and I did technically purchase the system in 1999. > I > don't know if I'm using apm or acbi. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup