Re: Funny? (Sound, ppp and modules in Debian Woody 3.0)

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 21:05, M=A7K wrote:
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> On 28-Apr-02, you wrote:
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> > On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 03:33, M=A7K wrote:
> >> Here is the main problem: when I press play on XMMS no sound is played
> >> but the modem switches on (!). I'm using kernel 2.4.9, everything is
> >> correctly installed (I hope). I even added
> >>    alias sound-slot-0 dmasound_paula
> >> to etc/modutils/aliases and ran update-modules, but it didn't work.
> >=20
> > /dev/dsp is correct, and xmms set up to use it?
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> Just the same settings that worked under 1999 Q3 (esound output).

And esd is running? Have you tried accessing /dev/dsp directly with an
app?

> Anyway, it seems to be related to gtk apps, as sometimes the modem switch=
es
> on when I click "Ok" on gnome requesters or when I tried to play freeciv =
(I
> was connecting to localhost)

Weird...


> >> Moreover, when I launch KDE after loading the window manager a message
> >> appears telling something about a cpu overload problem dealing with th=
e
> >> sound server.
> >=20
> > AFAIK this particular problem is a known artsd breakage.
>=20
> er... what does it mean?

artsd, the KDE sound server, doesn't work on big endian systems, at
least didn't until recently.


> >> I can't connect to the internet either.
> >> GKDial connects but drops the line as soon as authentication ends, kpp=
p
> >> can't access /dev/ttyS0 from users even if all the permissions and gro=
up
> >> are set correctly (I'm in dip,
> >> dialout etc...).
> >> When I run kppp as root, it finds the modem, connects, but then pppd d=
ies
> >> (also after I chmoded it) telling that it can't find ppp (but the alia=
ses
> >> seem right).
> >=20
> > Can you run pppd with the debug option and look at the debug output in
> > the syslog?
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> Yesterday I succeeded in reading some pppd debug output in kppp log windo=
w,
> but today it does not work anymore. However it just said "Sorry, can't he=
lp
> you" and showed that it hanged up when trying to connect to ppp0.
> What can be interesting is the output I get from a shell when I launch kp=
pp.
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> debian:~# kppp
> Kernel supports ppp alright.
> Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
> Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
> pppd: The remote system is required to authenticate itself
> pppd: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to=
 do
> so.pppd: (None of the available passwords would let it use an IP address.=
)
> Couldn't find interface ppp0: No such device
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> It really looks like it can't find ppp0... ;)
> I won't post the aliases list again, but the settings are
> alias ppp0 ppp
> alias ppp1 ppp

The ppp module is a 2.2 thing. I have these ppp related aliases:

/etc/modutils/ppp:alias /dev/ppp          ppp_generic
/etc/modutils/ppp:alias char-major-108    ppp_generic
/etc/modutils/ppp:alias tty-ldisc-3       ppp_async =20
/etc/modutils/ppp:alias tty-ldisc-14      ppp_synctty
/etc/modutils/ppp:alias ppp-compress-21   bsd_comp  =20
/etc/modutils/ppp:alias ppp-compress-24   ppp_deflate
/etc/modutils/ppp:alias ppp-compress-26   ppp_deflate


> Last but not least, is there a way to shutdown the system other than open=
ing
> a shell and typing shutdown -r now?
> The logout function in Gnome does not show the Reboot and Shutdown option=
s
> even if linuxconf settings and shutdown permissions are ok.

What about the gdm system menu?


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast