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wysiwyg:
Good evening everyone!  This post is related to two other posts I have made in the past:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,17287.msg103684.html#msg103684
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,17288.msg103685.html#msg103685

The first one goes on to talk about how I had purchased some new equipment that apparently wasn't going to work until an updated kernel could be installed (referenced in a reply to my second post above).  Basically curaga mentioned that in order for the hardware (audio & video feeding through the HDMI connector) to work, the kernel had to be updated to at least 3.10.  Well a new version of TC has been released (6.x) and it uses the 3.16 kernel!  I updated the corepure64.gz and vmlinuz64 files then booted up and checked alsamixer.  Unfortunately the same results appear as originally described...

What I did notice was a file called modules64.gz in the repo.  Do I perhaps need to utilize some files in that file in order for the audio hardware to be recognized with alsamixer?

I haven't tried to use the correct X11 driver, but I'll report back what I find when I do.

Thanks,
Dave

wysiwyg:
This is a follow-up regarding the video driver.  I ended up upgrading the graphics-3.16 file and removed the xf86-video-vesa files to ensure the system would be using the xf86-video-ati, but I get a "failed to waitforX" boot message and placed at the cli.  Looking the X log, it shows loading all the proper drivers, but obviously fails to load the vesa one of course.  There are also a couple of complaints about a missing /dev/fb0 file, but otherwise doesn't show any errors.  Thoughts on how I can make this use the ati drivers?

Thanks,
Dave

Juanito:
Does your graphics hardware require firmware to be loaded?

curaga:
Please also make sure you have the correct alsa extensions for the new kernel instead of the 5.x (or 4.x) ones. firmware-radeon is needed for ATI graphics (and consequently sound through it).

Please post your dmesg and Xorg.0.log to pastebin if things still don't work.


You can easily update extensions using Apps: first update the dep files, check for updates, and finally "fetch missing".

wysiwyg:
Good morning everyone!

@Juanito yes, there was an error message at the startup about a missing radeon file, but per curaga's advice on loading the firmware-radeon file, that message has been resolved.

@curaga looking through the X log now that I've loaded the firmware file, I can see a whole bunch of RADEON lines so I'm assuming that X is working with the ATI driver instead of the vesa one.  However, for lines that appear to be loading anything for audio, I see "No input driver specified, ignoring this device.  This device may have been added with another device file."  I can pastebin the logs if you desire.  I also made sure I was loading the alsa-modules-3.16.6-tinycore64 file so I would assume this would bring in the latest alsa drivers.

I also wanted to perform the steps you mentioned using the 'Apps' software, but I don't see anywhere in there to update the dep files.  I can only see an option for checking for updates and nothing about "Fetch Missing".  I ended up updating all the files that were found, but now the system takes an extremely long time to get into X with only parts of the TC GUI loading (e.g. still has the default X11 X shaped cursor and no wbar).  I'm just going to start all over with a fresh install...

Dave

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