-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dumb question, but did you make sure all your modules are in order and loaded? Greg On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:53:01AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > I have been sitting on this SW 10.1 distro for a few weeks, and > yesterday decided to upgrade my SW 10.0 distribution to the new release. > I chose to do it like Adam described, following the procedure Patrick > recommends in the file "upgrade.txt" on disk 1, and everything seemed to > go okay, except for the kernel. My old kernel (2.4.26) remained in > place, although the 2.4.29 source tree was put in place. Before > rebooting I copied the speakup.s kernel to /boot, but not replacing the > original yet, and made a new entry in /etc/lilo.conf, then ran lilo. > > Well, speakup.s (2.4.29) more or less worked, but my sound drivers were > not working, and my networking did not work. > > So being a big boy and all, I patched the 2.4.29 source tree from my > checkout script, fixed a couple of things, then compiled and installed > the new kernel. Still no sound, but now networking works. I have mail, > my firewall is intact, web access is okay, but my sblive is not > detected. > > Being superstitious, I used "removepkg" to drop all the alsa packages, > then installpkg to reinstall them again, still nothing. > > Grrrrr... > > I have three choices I am willing to make, and will be obsessing over > them for a few hours. > > 1. Do a clean install of SW 10.1, which will be a pain in the OS to say > the least. > > 2. Wave bye bye to Slackware and give Debian a whirl. I have Shane's > installation disk ready to go here. > > 3. See if I can get on board with Gentoo, which seems to be getting > noticed lately. > > Meanwhile, patching 2.4.29 with the current speakup from CVS gives me a > crippled mark/cut/paste feature. Marking works fine, but cutting locks > up my system tighter than a drum. Not good. I cannot live without > mark/cut/paste any more. > > Bummer. > > Chuck > > > -- > The Moon is Waning Crescent (13% of Full) > "Things are in the saddle, and they ride mankind." Ralph Waldo Emerson > Visit my download site at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:4252a687261281555868999! > > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCUrzD7s9z/XlyUyARArsUAKDEAxA4xq+rN6/wQB+pSESne7YfCgCcDPGd /brPWuIZcuPi5qo6/8e4OCg= =SwS+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
