New kernels

[xeno74]

According to the MATE System Monitors in my Void and Fienix6, 6.6rc7 functions in both.

And I have the kernels in lib/modules of both platforms, but Test Speakers in Sound Preferences doesn't make any noise in either.

Lots of junk which I imagine I should move to trash
[amigaone@void-live ~]$ ls -ltr /lib/modules
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 29 2022 5.10.89_A-EON_X1000_Nemo
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 29 2022 5.16.0_A-EON_X1000_Nemo
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 29 2022 5.16.0_A-EON_X5000
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 29 2022 5.10.89_A-EON_X5000
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 29 2022 5.17.0-rc1_A-EON_X1000_Nemo
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 29 2022 5.17.0-rc1_A-EON_X5000
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 20 2022 5.18.0-rc3_A-EON_X5000
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 25 2022 5.10.112_A-EON_X5000
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 3 2022 5.18.0-rc5_A-EON_X5000
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 9 2022 5.10.113_A-EON_X5000
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 13 2022 5.18.0-rc6_A-EON_X5000
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 11 09:40 6.5.0-rc1_A-EON_X5000
drwxr-xr-x 3 amigaone amigaone 4096 Sep 8 09:45 6.6.0-a3_A-EON_X5000-g7ba2090ca64e-dirty
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 19 16:03 6.6.0-rc6_A-EON_X5000

You have not installed the kernel modules 6.6.0-rc7, so your sound card does not work.

[kilaueabart]

As I pointed out, I am using the final, stable version of kernal 6.6. Do I still have to have all the rc versions that lead up to it?

I also have kernal 6.6.0_A-EON_X5000 in Fienix6, but I get no sound there recently either.

root@fienix:/home/fienix# ls /lib/modules
6.0.0-6-powerpc64 6.6.0_A-EON_X5000
6.1.0_A-EON_X1000_Nemo 6.6.0-rc3_A-EON_X5000
6.1.0_A-EON_X5000 6.6.0-rc6_A-EON_X5000
6.6.0-a3_A-EON_X5000-g7ba2090ca64e-dirty 6.6.0-rc7_A-EON_X5000

And lsmod doesn't seem to work in Fienix the way it did in void:

root@fienix:/home/fienix# lsmod
Module Size Used by
root@fienix:/home/fienix#

[kilaueabart]

After posting the above from fienix I came to void and tried lsmod again, with extremely different results, but still no mention of a kernel:

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[amigaone@void-live ~]$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
bnep                   28672  2
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     73728  1
snd_hda_intel          45056  0
snd_intel_dspcfg       12288  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec         176128  2 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_core          110592  3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
uio_pdrv_genirq        16384  0
uio                    28672  1 uio_pdrv_genirq
vhost_net              32768  0
vhost                  53248  1 vhost_net
vhost_iotlb            16384  1 vhost
hci_vhci               20480  0
bluetooth             618496  6 bnep,hci_vhci
ecdh_generic           16384  1 bluetooth
ecc                    36864  1 ecdh_generic
dm_mod                176128  0
tun                    69632  1 vhost_net
[amigaone@void-live ~]$ 

And still no sound, even though VLC comes up with a timing bar moving across the bottom of the screen.

[xeno74]

Which sound card is installed in your X5000?

[xeno74]

6.7-alpha1:

Virtual ppce500 QEMU machine with the virtio-gpu-pci or virtio-vga:

There is a fbdev issue. (The penguins are not displayed at boot time).

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[    0.889302] virtio-pci 0000:00:02.0: [drm] *ERROR* fbdev: Failed to setup generic emulation (ret=-2)

The kernel 6.6 final doesn't have this issue.

This is not a problem with the VirtIO GPU driver. The developers have changed the code for displaying the penguins for CPU cores at boot time.

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only allow logo use from fbcon

[xeno74]

I reported this issue to the kernel developers today.

Link: Fbdev issue after the drm updates 'drm-next-2023-10-31-1'

[kilaueabart]

Which sound card is installed in your X5000?

I'm not sure how to find out without getting the box out and opening it up and peeking, but maybe this is a clue?

https://ibb.co/M8SCpzm

That Radeon 7000 bit sounds very familiar. I would have thought that is what I have. But I can't turn it on, prsumably because it isn't there.

The test speaker buttons don't work, but I did get just one sentence from Duolingo, belatedly, again today, in Fienix.

[xeno74]

... but I did get just one sentence from Duolingo, belatedly, again today, in Fienix.

I see. The CMI8738/CMI8768 PCI card is activated and works but there are some issues with these sound cards. See thread Sound absent.

[xeno74]

Hi All,

The two week long merge window for 6.7 has been started and here is the first alpha for testing.

New:

• Linux 6.7 MMC To See Up To 4~5% Better 4K Random Write Performance -- phoronix.com
• Networking updates (including VirtIO updates)
• DRM updates (including Radeon and VirtIO GPU updates)
• DMA mapping updates
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 6.7

Download: linux-image-6.7-alpha1-X1000_X5000.tar.gz



Please test the alpha1.

Thanks,
Christian

[kilaueabart]

The CMI8738/CMI8768 PCI card is activated and works but there are some issues with these sound cards. See thread Sound absent.

Looks hopeless. MATE System Monitor indicates that the first alpha of 6.7 works

Screenshot at 2023-11-05 16-59-54.png

but I won't be using AmigaOneX5000 Linux much anymore if there's no way to get sound on it.