Upgraded today (do it often) with Swaret.

Sound card was working fine w/ ALSA prior to upgrade. [This is a system
with a non-working motherboard sound chip and also a separate sound
card -- ALSA had been seeing and using the card.] Had good sound when
KDE loaded, playing CDs and had sound from web sites (i.e., pbs.org).

With the "upgraded" ALSA sound isn't working and alsaconfg isn't
finding anything. I get errors when I run alsaconf but they go by too
quickly to read.

I thought swaret had a rollback feature but it isn't seen in --help
now.

Is there a config file I should blow away or one I should manually
configure?

Don

LT Don wrote:

> Upgraded today (do it often) with Swaret.
>
> Sound card was working fine w/ ALSA prior to upgrade. [This is a system
> with a non-working motherboard sound chip and also a separate sound
> card -- ALSA had been seeing and using the card.] Had good sound when
> KDE loaded, playing CDs and had sound from web sites (i.e., pbs.org).
>
> With the "upgraded" ALSA sound isn't working and alsaconfg isn't
> finding anything. I get errors when I run alsaconf but they go by too
> quickly to read.
>
> I thought swaret had a rollback feature but it isn't seen in --help
> now.
>
> Is there a config file I should blow away or one I should manually
> configure?
>
> Don
>
Stop using swaret maybe?
Only joking of course.
On the other hand...

Eric

5 May 2005 17:14:27 -0700 - "LT Don" <don.benz@gmail.com> :

> Upgraded today (do it often) with Swaret.
>
> Sound card was working fine w/ ALSA prior to upgrade. [This is a
> system with a non-working motherboard sound chip and also a separate
> sound card -- ALSA had been seeing and using the card.] Had good sound
> when KDE loaded, playing CDs and had sound from web sites (i.e.,
> pbs.org).
>
> With the "upgraded" ALSA sound isn't working and alsaconfg isn't
> finding anything. I get errors when I run alsaconf but they go by too
> quickly to read.

You have to add "EXCLUDE=alsa" to your /etc/swaret.conf [1] [2].

[1] http://tinyurl.com/ax5an
[2] http://tinyurl.com/blsnt

> I thought swaret had a rollback feature but it isn't seen in --help
> now.

Just reinstall the official ALSA packages for Slackware Linux :

$ su - root
# mount /mnt/cdrom
# upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new /mnt/cdrom/slackware/*/alsa-*tgz

> Is there a config file I should blow away or one I should manually
> configure?

/etc/swaret.conf

--
LiNuCe

Fri, 06 May 2005 02:34:53 +0200 - Eric Hameleers <alien@penguin1.dyndns.org> :

> Stop using swaret maybe?
> Only joking of course.
> On the other hand...

Swaret can be a quite usefull tool when 1) it is properly configured
and 2) it only uses official Slackware packages (with GPG footprint
checking). However, I admit that I don't use it (I prefer the standard
Slackware tools to manage softwares).

--
LiNuCe

On Fri, 06 May 2005 02:42:25 +0200, LiNuCe wrote:

> 5 May 2005 17:14:27 -0700 - "LT Don" <don.benz@gmail.com> :
>
>> Upgraded today (do it often) with Swaret.
>>
>> Sound card was working fine w/ ALSA prior to upgrade. [This is a
>> system with a non-working motherboard sound chip and also a separate
>> sound card -- ALSA had been seeing and using the card.] Had good sound
>> when KDE loaded, playing CDs and had sound from web sites (i.e.,
>> pbs.org).
>>
>> With the "upgraded" ALSA sound isn't working and alsaconfg isn't
>> finding anything. I get errors when I run alsaconf but they go by too
>> quickly to read.
>
> You have to add "EXCLUDE=alsa" to your /etc/swaret.conf [1] [2].
>

Another option would be to enable the upgrade of the kernel to match the
upgrade of alsa. IIRC the kernel upgrades are excluded by default in
swaret. Been awhile though, since I used it. Don't forget to edit
lilo.conf

Read the changelog.

No no no ... I am intimately familiar with swaret.cong -- I meant an
alsa file. [d'oh]

LiNuCe

Damn, you are good. That worked.

I've been a Windows guru for over two decades ... and am a Slack idiot.
[But I keep learning.]

Thanks again.

Don

LT Don wrote:

> Upgraded today (do it often) with Swaret.
>
> Sound card was working fine w/ ALSA prior to upgrade. [This is a system
> with a non-working motherboard sound chip and also a separate sound
> card -- ALSA had been seeing and using the card.] Had good sound when
> KDE loaded, playing CDs and had sound from web sites (i.e., pbs.org).
>
> With the "upgraded" ALSA sound isn't working and alsaconfg isn't
> finding anything. I get errors when I run alsaconf but they go by too
> quickly to read.
>
> I thought swaret had a rollback feature but it isn't seen in --help
> now.
>
> Is there a config file I should blow away or one I should manually
> configure?
>
> Don

By default swaret does not upgrade the kernel - for obvious reasons.
Unfortunately alsa needs to be compiled for a specific kernel so if you
upgrade alsa and not the kernel then sound does not work. This is a problem
with alsa not swaret.

Ian

LT Don ka¾e:

> Upgraded today (do it often) with Swaret.

<cut>

[ijagec@munja etc]$ less swaret.conf|grep EXCLUDE
# some Packages, add the KEYWORDS to the EXCLUDE Variable.
# NOTE: You can add ANY EXTENDED REGEXP (Regular Expression) to the
EXCLUDE Variable(s)
EXCLUDE=aaa_ glib alsa
EXCLUDE=kernel
EXCLUDE=lilo swaret
EXCLUDE=MANIFEST.bz2$
EXCLUDE=.*dl$ .*PACKAGER$ .*MYBUILD$
# Syntax: KEYWORD[DONT_EXCLUDE_ME_KEYWORD1,DONT_EXCLUDE_ME_KEYWORD2, ...]
EXCLUDE=kde-i18n[nl,en_GB] koffice-i18n[nl,en_GB]
EXCLUDE=gnome

--
Igor Jagec

Wow! Does Mr. Gates know that you were a Windoops
guru already in early 80's? ;-) Or, life with windoops looked so
lo-o-o-o-ong?

Mikhail