Geforce GT610

[pigdog]

Hi maverick0815,

Did you try to upgrade your kernel as ardirtbiker suggested?


Cheers

[maverick0815]

I'm afraid not..I only got upgrades via apt-get...so I'm afraid my expertise and my confidence currently don't reach that far. I went to the irc last night and hope that l3mce can shed some light on the situation.

[pigdog]

Hi,

If there is a newer kernel you may need to use dist-upgrade.


Cheers

[ardirtbiker]

If you do an 'apt-cache search linux-image-2.6.38' you should get a list...   I installed both the linux-image and linux headers for 2.6.38-16-generic.. which then allowed me to use my hdmi audio.   The upgrade will install grub-common, grub-pc and another package (all three can be removed).   After installing the new kernel you will need to fix the permissions on the files in /boot and you will need to fix the links in /boot for vmlinuz and initrd.img to point to the new files.  Nvidia-current may neet to be re-installed

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[maverick0815]

okay...I did a dist-upgrade after installing the dcerouter...I'm not quite sure what kernel is installed there now, but I can check when I come home.
The other thing is, if  I still need the kernel-upgrade...how exactly do I fix the permissions and links?

[ardirtbiker]

On the permissions:   I had the new kernel image (vmlinuz-2.6.38-xx-generic) and the initrd.img (initrd.img-2.6.38-xx-generic) having permissions of
-rw--------- (chmod 600) but should be -rw--r---r-- (chmod 644)...  running ls -l in the \boot directory will show the file permission.   Running chmod 644 * will set all permissions to what is needed.

On the links:   run ls -l again in the \boot directory.  Note the current vmlinuz > /usr/pluto/diskless/ (blah blah) and the initrd.img > /usr/pluto/diskless/ (blah blah).   You will also see the newer kernel and initrd.img file (with the new version info at the end)   run the command

ln -sf /usr/pluto/diskless/MM/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-vv-generic vmlinuz   (where MM is your Media Director number and vv is whatever number you have in the file name.)

do the same for initrd.img:   ln -sf /usr/pluto/diskless/MM/boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-vv-generic initrd.img


I am not 100% certain the two links need to be set because on the CORE/HYBRID in the /tftpboot/MM directory the links actually point to the initrd.img and vmlinuz files in the root directory on the media director (/usr/pluto/diskless/MM/initrd.img and /usr/pluto/diskless/MM/vmlinuz).  So, on the media director, you need to do a ln -sf for both the initrd.img and vmlinuz files   (make sure you're in the root directory on the MD):

ln -sf boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-vv-generic initrd.img
ln -sf boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-vv-generic vmlinuz

Here is what I have in the root directory of my MD (number is 83)

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root@moon83:/# ls -l
total 80
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Feb  3 09:17 bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Apr  9 19:32 boot
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root  4960 Apr 29 16:34 dev
drwxr-xr-x 144 root root 12288 Apr 29 16:34 etc
drwxr-xr-x  27 root root  4096 Feb  2 07:40 home
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    36 Apr  9 17:51 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-32-generic-pae
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    36 Mar 30 08:41 initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-30-generic-pae
drwxr-xr-x  21 root root 16384 Apr  9 18:33 lib
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Nov 26 21:08 media
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 Feb  2 07:40 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Apr 27 16:33 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 225 root root     0 Apr 29 16:34 proc
drwx------  23 root root  4096 May  3 17:25 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr  9 17:36 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Dec  5  2009 selinux
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Feb  2 18:43 srv
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root     0 Apr 29 16:34 sys
drwxrwxrwt   6 root root  4096 May  3 17:24 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root  4096 Mar 30 09:04 usr
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root  4096 Nov 26 20:52 var
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    33 Apr  9 17:51 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-32-generic-pae
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    33 Mar 30 08:41 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-30-generic-pae


and in the boot directory (note that I am actually running a 3.0.0-30 version kernel --- i experiment alot):

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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2127326 Jan  7 11:12 System.map-3.0.0-30-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2128459 Mar 22 13:49 System.map-3.0.0-32-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   774843 Jan  7 11:12 abi-3.0.0-30-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   774951 Mar 22 13:49 abi-3.0.0-32-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   142100 Jan  7 11:12 config-3.0.0-30-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   142100 Mar 22 13:49 config-3.0.0-32-generic-pae
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Mar 30 08:46 grub
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       59 Apr  9 18:50 initrd.img -> /usr/pluto/diskless/83/boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-32-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14000371 Feb  3 17:50 initrd.img-3.0.0-30-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13993859 Apr  9 19:31 initrd.img-3.0.0-32-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     1215 Jan  7 11:13 vmcoreinfo-3.0.0-30-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     1215 Mar 22 13:50 vmcoreinfo-3.0.0-32-generic-pae
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       56 Apr  9 18:49 vmlinuz -> /usr/pluto/diskless/83/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-32-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4788528 Jan  7 11:12 vmlinuz-3.0.0-30-generic-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4788400 Mar 22 13:49 vmlinuz-3.0.0-32-generic-pae


Im thinking some of the MASTER LMCE gurus may be gasping...

[maverick0815]

So far doing the core- thats where the geforce card is being used- worked okay. I got hdmi sound now.
On the other hand...do I need to do the same procedure on the md, or do I just need to fix the links? I though just running Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh and create a new MD might do, but it seems that it is still creating an image for 2.6.32-46

[ardirtbiker]

I dont know if the Diskless_CreateTBZ script will actually include the newer kernel.   I have only needed to upgrade my MD.

Denns

[maverick0815]

okay...so I will do it manually on the md, no problem...I think.
But thank you very much for your help...hdmi sound is now working :-)

[ardirtbiker]

Awesome!  Great work..

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[maverick0815]

it seems that I missed something along the lines by uprading the kernel on my md...right now it says "could not find kernel image: 39vmlinuz"

[Marie.O]

make sure the rights are set correct.

[maverick0815]

I will just try again...rebuilding the image now.
The other thing I just checked again, AVWizard gave me sound on hdmi...but so far nothing else...so I will take the soundblaster card out now and try again. I think that should do it. The only thing is the kernelupgrade takes like forever on an atom...better it was an ariel atom instead ;-D

[maverick0815]

Everything is A-OK now :-) Thanks for the help, guys.

[Sergdill]

Everything is A-OK now :-) Thanks for the help, guys.

maverick0815, so what was the problem .