Vidiot wrote:
> >In this case he just had to run sndconfig, as you've always had to do.
> >Tom.
>
> Here's one for ya. It seems that alot of people missed this one. I didn't
> know about it as it appears to be new in 6.1. It is a program called kudzu.
> No, I didn't discover it on my own, it was pointed out to me.
>
> In any event, according to the man page:
>
> kudzu detects and configures new and/or changed hardware
> on a system. When started, kudzu detects the current
> hardware, and checks it against a database stored in
> /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, if one exists. It then determines
> if any hardware has been added or removed from the system.
> If so, it gives the users the opportunity to configure any
> added hardware, and unconfigure any removed hardware. It
> then updates the database in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.
>
> So, when is it started. I went looking. Yep, found it in /etc/rc.d/init.d.
> Starts at run levels 3, 4 or 5. I looked at the script and saw the
> following text:
>
> case "$1" in
> start)
> echo -n "Checking for new hardware"
>
> I remembered seeing the "Checking for new hardware" line in the boot stuff.
> Something that I hadn't seen before. The fact that it didn't find any new
> hardware was not unexpected, as I hadn't put in any new hardware since
> installing 6.1.
>
> But... after discovering that the PCI sound card was not installed and after
> being informed about kudzu, it dawned on me that the new program that was
> supposed to find new hardware, did not find the "new" hardware.
>
> To prove that it is a PCI sound card, this is what /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
> has in it:
>
> class: AUDIO
> bus: PCI
> detached: 0
> driver: es1371
> desc: "Ensoniq|ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]"
> vendorId: 1274
> deviceId: 1371
>
> If I understand all of the above correctly, I should never have had a
> sound card problem. The very first boot should have detected the card
> and installed it by asking me about it, which it never has. In theory,
> I should never have had to run sndconfig.
>
> Ah, but wait. There is more to this story. Consider the following:
>
> ls -la /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1382 Feb 29 07:34 /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
>
> The sndconfig program never even touched the hwconf file. It already had
> the info for the sound card in there, after I had done the install and days
> before I ran sndconfig. The date is equal to when the partition table
> for /dev/hdb was fixed and brought on line.
>
> This is the order of entries in hwconf:
>
> -
> class: OTHER
> desc: "Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]|M1531 [Aladdin IV]"
> -
> class: OTHER
> desc: "Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]|M1533 [Aladdin IV]"
> -
> class: OTHER
> desc: "Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]|M5229"
> -
> class: NETWORK
> desc: "Realtek|8029"
> -
> class: SCSI
> desc: "Adaptec|AHA-7850"
> -
> class: VIDEO
> desc: "NVidia / SGS Thomson|Riva128"
> -
> class: AUDIO
> desc: "Ensoniq|ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]"
> -
> class: MOUSE
> desc: "Generic PS/2 Mouse"
> -
> class: CDROM
> desc: "MATSHITA CR-585"
> -
> class: FLOPPY
> desc: "IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI"
> -
> class: HD
> desc: "Maxtor 85400D5"
> -
> class: HD
> desc: "Maxtor 92049U6"
>
> As can be seen, the audio card was found and listed before other physical
> items, yet it wasn't "enabled". Would explain why kudzu didn't find it
> as new hardware. It was already there.
>
Sharing the above info is appreciated by those who might want to know about it.
I would.
>
> Is there a hole in the initial configuration procedure somewhere? Why would
> the system find the sound card, yet not "turn it on?"
>
> Is this a bug that needs to be fixed in 6.2? I see nothing in the updates
> & errata area of the web site that discusses the above. One of two things
> needs to happen during the install:
>
> 1) Find the sound card and finish installing the modules so that the
> card will work. Don't do half the job by listing it in the
> hwconf file.
>
> 2) Don't look for a sound card at all during the install. That way
> the hwconf file should not get an entry and when kudzu is started
> for the first time, it will find the sound card and query the user
> for what to do next.
>
That's where you might want to start sending suggestions to RedHat.
>
> MB
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