Fresh Install - What Next?

[Proletariat]

I've got a fresh install of PCLinuxOS KDE 2011 Desktop.

What steps are next. Update the video driver? Update the system? Is there any order?

[Rudge]

The first thing you want to do is open synaptic and check to see that you have an appropriate repo selected. Then do a full update.

[Proletariat]

Thanks. Doing that now. 

[horusfalcon]

You might also wish to look over the excellent tips given at http://www.pclinuxos.com/?p=1282 for some good post-install customizations.

Hope you enjoy your new system.

Later On,
D

[Proletariat]

Thanks for the link.  Will check it a bit later. I have a sound issue that needs sorting. 

[Rudge]

Thanks for the link.  Will check it a bit later. I have a sound issue that needs sorting. 

Check into running "alsaconf" as root. Follow the steps, it's easy and will solve most simple problems. 

[Proletariat]

Tried alsaconf & got:

No supported PnP or PCI card found. Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips?

Tried the probe but cancelled it when I did not recognise anything it put up.

I have onboard sound. Asus P7P55D-E Deluxe.

Any suggestions?

[horusfalcon]

Tried alsaconf & got:

No supported PnP or PCI card found. Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips?

Tried the probe but cancelled it when I did not recognise anything it put up.

I have onboard sound. Asus P7P55D-E Deluxe.

Any suggestions?

You may want to do some reading at:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/support/tech_faq.jsp

And the specs for your motherboard are at:
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1156/P7P55DE_Deluxe/#specifications

Your motherboard has a VIA VT2020 sound system with a ton of features.  It may be you need a specific driver to support its feature set correctly?  It may be that a request to the packaging team will get the drivers for this put in the Synaptic repositories for you (and others who use this hardware) if it's not there already, but, failing in that, you may have to install them yourself.  (That's not really a recommended course and may cause problems for your system... be prepared to experiment.)

This is something that happens now and then - a hardware manufacturer will build something with a chip so new that Linux hasn't caught up to it yet.  Give it time, and, meanwhile, keep pluggin' away at it.  You'll get where you need to be with patience and persistence.

One last question:  is this related to your other thread about no sound in headphones (http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,101515.0.html)?  Just happened to think about that... this may very well play into that problem, too.  Definitely check to see if you are set up for 5.1 channel output (in which one jack feeds the front speakers, another feeds the rear, and a third feeds the subwoofer).  If so, and you are using more conventional speakers, you may need to reconfigure the sound system to your hardware.

Later On,
D

Later On,
D

[Just17]

Searching on line for

linux vt2020

gives a couple of hits which may help.


First though the presence of the sound card & type needs to be confirmed from within PCLinuxOS.

In a terminal do

lspci | grep audio

you should get back a response something like this (won't be the same)

00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)

Now using that number do the following command

EDIT:  Do the following command as root to get extra output

lspci -vv -s 00:10.1       <change to number to suit your output above>


Copy and paste the output into your next post.

Mine looked like this

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lspci -vv -s 00:10.1
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
        Subsystem: Dell Device 0249
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- D
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max)
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 22
        Region 0: Memory at efff4000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel


[horusfalcon]

According to this (http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_33#head-89ae1b06411fce318e7e4c5017fc6cb62db8c1f8), support for the VT2020 was added in kernel 2.6.33 a while back.

Grifting around in another forum (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1461287) I found this:


(post no. 7 in the thread)

Re: Via VT2020 AudioChip not working properly
I added this line.
Quote:
options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-digout
However before adding this, I upgraded my ALSA to the latest version. I hope this helps. I would like to help everybody ,who has the same problem, as much as I can.

Looks like the VT2020 is emulating an intel?  By the way, this poster has the same exact motherboard as you.

Maybe this will help?

Later On,
D