On 13/02/06, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com wrote:
I usually don't setup any GUI on my Linux systems. Yesterday I installed with X and Gnome on a spare system for some testing and hit a problem. Right after login the system freezes. The system froze already earlier when I opted to test the sound card on the Welcome screen and when I login with the alternative login choice xterm and shut down it freezes when "saving mixer settings". So, I suspect there's some problem with the onboard sound or with the driver that gets used from X. How's the best way to cope with this? I don't really need sound, how to disable (short of disabling it on the mainboard)?
You could try hacking around in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf ? Obviously make a backup copy first. :)
Have a look at the output from...
# grep -r snd /etc/*
See if that helps you track down where it's being started from.
Is sndconfig enabled in the various /etc/rc.N directories?
# chkconfig --list | grep -i snd
Have you also tried setting the runlevel to 3 and running startx manually to see if the problem still occurs there?
Will.