I have upgraded from 10.0 to current using swaret. All went well, dependent
library was found, downloaded and installed. After a reboot command line
is OK but alsa not working (note kernel was excluded from update). startx
brought about a fatal server error with several messages about modules that
could not be loaded. Re-running the Nvidia install prog sorted all of
these but the keyboard. I discovered my Xorg.conf listed the keyboard
driver as "Keyboard" but the actual module began with a lowercase k.
Changing Xorg.conf fixed this and X was up and running. Strange that this
Xorg.conf worked fine before. Have core module name spellings changed??

alsa complained it could not find the snd-intel0x8 module which I knew was
there. I had snd-intel0x8m in my hotplug/blacklist file so I knew it was
not hotplug causing the problem. Uninstalled alsa (1.06) and re-installed
from 10.0 CD (alsa 1.05) and it all works fine. Is this because alsa is
kernel specific?

Ian
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Ian Bell

> these but the keyboard. I discovered my Xorg.conf listed the keyboard
> driver as "Keyboard" but the actual module began with a lowercase k.
> Changing Xorg.conf fixed this and X was up and running. Strange that this
> Xorg.conf worked fine before. Have core module name spellings changed??

yes, you should read the Changelog before doing a swaret --upgrade
The keyboard driver in Xorg-6.8 is now called 'kbd' since its a completelly
new implementation.

> alsa complained it could not find the snd-intel0x8 module which I knew was
> there. I had snd-intel0x8m in my hotplug/blacklist file so I knew it was
> not hotplug causing the problem. Uninstalled alsa (1.06) and re-installed
> from 10.0 CD (alsa 1.05) and it all works fine. Is this because alsa is
> kernel specific?

alsa-driver is kernel specific yes
alsa-lib and alsa-utils are not and can be upgraded.

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damjan

Damjan wrote:

>
>> these but the keyboard. I discovered my Xorg.conf listed the keyboard
>> driver as "Keyboard" but the actual module began with a lowercase k.
>> Changing Xorg.conf fixed this and X was up and running. Strange that
>> this
>> Xorg.conf worked fine before. Have core module name spellings changed??
>
> yes, you should read the Changelog before doing a swaret --upgrade
> The keyboard driver in Xorg-6.8 is now called 'kbd' since its a
> completelly new implementation.

I did but I must have missed that part.

>
>> alsa complained it could not find the snd-intel0x8 module which I knew
>> was
>> there. I had snd-intel0x8m in my hotplug/blacklist file so I knew it was
>> not hotplug causing the problem. Uninstalled alsa (1.06) and
>> re-installed
>> from 10.0 CD (alsa 1.05) and it all works fine. Is this because alsa is
>> kernel specific?
>
> alsa-driver is kernel specific yes
> alsa-lib and alsa-utils are not and can be upgraded.
>

Thanks.

Ian

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Ian Bell