GNOME/WindowMaker/SuSE Linux Problems

ulissesr asks: "After purchasing the SuSE 6.1 version of Linux, I installed my preferred window manager (WindowMaker) and GNOME. Now, each time I try to initialize GNOME (gnome-session) under WindowMaker (let's say, in xterm) i get the following error: "Unable to connect to server port 35091". I tried to initialize the esound daemon (esd) by putting a call to it in my ~/.xinitrc file, but i get an /dev/dsp error too. My sound card, is a Creative Labs Sound Blaster PCI 64, w/ the ess 1370 chipset. Is there anyway i can run GNOME under WindowMaker with this hardware configuration?"

Comments

fix?

[Anonymous Coward]

make sure to compile window maker with gnome support and put "panel" in .xinitrc or equivalent

w/o sound

[detailer]

That's odd. I've run Gnome on machines w/o sound cards. At worst, E complains that it couldn't start esd, turns off sound, then happily goes on silently. Good luck.

panel's all you need

[An Ominous Cowherd]

yeah, just run panel in either yr ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart script or add it to yr .xinitrc or .Xclients. (Be sure and add an '&' after the 'wmaker' line if you start it there...).

don't bother with any of the gnome-session stuff, most of it's not fully implemented anyway. just run panel and you'll get the little clickie-bar and the rest of the gnome doodads.

oh, and there's an option when you start wmaker to disable its icons and make it play nice with gnome in WMPrefs somewhere you might want to turn on.

EsounD problems

[Rozzin]

I very recently built and installed the 2.2.10 version of the Linux kernel, and can no longer get EsounD to work.

After successfully modprobing in the `sb' module ( supplying the `io', `irq', and `dma' parameters), trying to launch esd reports:

Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

esd once reported that it couldn't allocate memory to operate on /dev/dsp, too....

I can write sound data to /dev/audio or /dev/dsp and have it played, my CDs play, and I can even play XGalaga, now, where I couldn't before--except for with EsounD, the sound is working better now than it was with the 2.0.35 kernel that I got from RedHat (/dev/sequencer isn't working, but that doesn't bother EsounD).

What am I doing wrong, here?

There's an entry in the isapnptools FAQ, dealing with rather sparse output from /dev/sndstat with SB32PnP cards, which is another of my syndromes, so I'm going to see if I can get any help from that....

What exactly is the /dev/dsp problem that you're getting from esd?
What kernel comes with SuSE 6.1?

PCI64 +esd

[Anonymous Coward]

I have a PCI64 and just got Suse 6.1 myself.
I'm using the vanilla kernel that came with it as i have no need for compiling a new one.

First install all kernel modules in YAST, and under /lib/modules/misc, make sure you have either modules es1370 or es1371 - es1370 is probably the chip your PCI64 uses.
I also installed ALSA in the snd section in YAST.

Next go to your conf.modules file and do the following.

Goto where the comments say "If you want to use the kernel sound drivers instead of OSS..."

comment out:
alias char-major-14 off
alias sound off
alias midi off

Then go down to the section with "module: es1370.o"

uncomment:
alias char-major-14 es1370
options es1370 joystick=1

Reboot or whatever and this sound give you PCM and Line 1 inputs but MIDI and CD are muted.
Thomas Sailer wrote the documentation for the es1370 module, you can find his email address at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/es1370 if you have installed the kernel source.
Hope it works for you as it did for me.

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