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Started 12 years ago by totoetsasoeur
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totoetsasoeur

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Hi,
Trying latest rolling release:
- install successfull,
- but system hangs with an orange box "searching sound cards" during boot process.

Here is the audio device installed:

*-multimedia
       description: Audio device
       product: Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1b
       bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
       version: 05
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
       resources: irq:22 memory:dfc00000-dfc03fff

This is part of my /var/log/boot.log:

...
Mounting usbfs filesystem on: /proc/bus/usb                          [ Done ]
Starting system log deamon: syslogd...                               [ Done ]
Starting kernel log daemon: klogd...                                 [ Done ]
Triggering udev events: --action=add                                 [ Done ]
Processing: /etc/init.d/bootopts.sh
Checking for SliTaz cmdline options...
Processing: /etc/init.d/system.sh
Restoring last alsa configuration...alsactl: load_state:1686: No soundcards found...
                                                                     [ Failed ]
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory

Something must be wrong in startup script but where...
Thx for helping.

Posted 12 years ago #

christophe

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sigh
it's been around for a while, i already mentionned that pb a few weeks ago, i believe

:(

Posted 12 years ago #
mojo

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Boot options for Cooking 20121014
300b75a80f40b2af2428a41fa81008d9 slitaz-rolling.iso
sound=noconf nomodeset screen=text
Login as root then start X: slim or /etc/init.d/slim start
Tested on 4 computers and virtualbox,it still configures the sound
Run an upgrade:
Recook alsaplayer,viewnior,etc to link to newer libs.
wpa_supplicant added missing depends libnl
Manually start dbus then hald to use gparted
Midori crash's on right click of slitaz home page search box.
Pcmanfm doesn't show attached drives as icons that can be clicked to mount.

Posted 12 years ago #
christophe

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Same punition, here (stuck 5% looking for sound card)

Did "tab" then added sound=noconf nomodeset screen=text
Is that what you meant ?

Additionnally slitaz complains "cannot open locale definition file 'C': No such file or directory"
Tried to change to French, same punition

Posted 12 years ago #
christophe

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ok i tracked it down

If i boot directly, then i reach a black screen; ctrl+alt+del i get the login prompt, log as root slim, it works ! with US keyboard of course (and i had to ctrl+alt+del)

If however i first select fr lang (or even, us lang ie C locale) then I hit the sound card looking screen stuck at 5% + error message for locale + freeze

Posted 12 years ago #
christophe

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I try all this from a virtualbox machine
this being said, trying to install to the (virtual) hd will not work

gparted does not start, complains hald not running or not ready
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Posted 12 years ago #
mojo

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@christophe
Read my previous post.

Posted 12 years ago #
christophe

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good point. (<ashamed>)

Posted 12 years ago #
christophe

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ok,
booted from cdrom (in vritualbox)
I LOVE the new icons (well back to the icons of 3.0 which i find much more functionnal.... not a big fan of faenza here, i find the icons are lacking clarity, but of course i must be half blind from aging...)
tried the upgrade of 4.0 on hda1
complained cannot mount /dev/cdrom
I defined it as a web upgrade, did it and rebooted
it upgraded, right away could not use sakura (some library missing)
tried to log to tazpanel to try some upgrade from there, never accepted root/root
issued tazpkg upgrade, it tried to upgrade a number of things i could see error messages
at reboot the system is broken (text replaced with squares and a bunch of icons not showing up)

That cooking is really an alpha, right ? or did i miss something really obvious ?
At least, i prefer the new (old) gui.

Posted 12 years ago #
Tropetre

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I still get the 5% loader even if I use sound=noconf nomodeset screen=text..
What am I doing wrong?

(Using virtualbox)

Posted 12 years ago #
christophe

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I have hit the same problem
I could boot if booting right away as i mentionned, without changing anything then ctrl+alt+del then reststarting slim
But still having a huge number of problems, as i mentionned.

Posted 12 years ago #
Tropetre

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But I don't reach a black screen... Why?

Posted 12 years ago #
christophe

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Not sure
As i said, it would not even start to work if i changed anything
eg if i follow mojo's advice, then i do not reach the black screen either :(

Posted 12 years ago #
toronado

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In Virtualbox, I have found that setting the VM's sound card to

Host Audio Driver: ALSA Audio Driver
Audio Controller: Soundblaster 16

allows me to boot using default options. I get a black screen after booting then do a CTRL+ALT+BKSPC.
Login using root account then start slim. Now I'm into a working desktop but with the same problems you describe above with pcmanfm, tazpanel, etc.

Posted 12 years ago #
Ceel

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With rolling of 2013-04-02 and 2013-04-15, my Lifebook hangs with this message only when batteries are present; never when removed.
Can this help to solve the problem ?

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