Will McDonald wrote on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:30:12 +0000:
You could try hacking around in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf ? Obviously make a backup copy first. :)
Ah, thanks. That shows "nforce AC'97 sound controller" or so using a driver intel-8x0m. Onboard video and LAN work fine, but not sound. I suppose if I want to stop it freezing I've to go to Nvidia and look for a sound driver.
# grep -r snd /etc/*
mostly in the alsa directory. I think I would need to stop modprobe from detecting the soundcard. That's not much different from disabling the soundcard, see next.
Is sndconfig enabled in the various /etc/rc.N directories?
no sndconfig or snd-config, but snd mentioned in rc.sysinit and alsa in the stop and reboot scripts (that's where the "saving mixer settings" is coming from). I didn't really want to comment out stuff in the rc files, so I have switched off onboard sound in the BIOS. Freezing has stopped.
# 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?
Seems so, it stops after "starting anacron OK" (when switching to runlevel 3). Don't know what next option is, but i have given up on that, see above.
Thanks for the hints, anyway!
Kai