speakers and shutdown that used to work and now don't work as well

speakers and shutdown that used to work and now don't work as well

[Sean McMahon]

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.

Re: speakers and shutdown that used to work and now don't work as well

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

Your problems are because you are using an old 2.4.27 kernel and OSS
drivers.  Try upgrading to a 2.6 kernel and using the alsa support.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny
	  
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:55:00AM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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Re: speakers and shutdown that used to work and now don't work as well

[Toby Fisher]

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" <smcmahon@usgs.gov>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
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.
>
>
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