BlueRay CD payer/writerb- How Do I Install

[Elvis]

My system:
My graphic card I use is a - nVidia GeForce GTX560 HDMI card hooked thru my Pioneer Receivers HDMI port w/5.1 surround speakers. No Sound, I did go to "Preferences" "AV Linux Control Panel" and [clicked] on the "System Customization" [tab]. and ran the "Install or Remove Nvida or Ati Proprietary Video Drivers"

My CD/BluRay Disc "Lite-On IHBS112-29 12X internal blue-ray disc writer", AV-Linux Can't see my CD/BluRay Disc and if  I do get it to run I wont be able to hear anything as of yet anyway, my Sound is not working, Yet?
Does any have any ideas or can someone help me. Could their be other setting I have not found?
Elvis

[soppel]

Elvis, we posted the same moment, so I have an story for your last post!!!!!

sorry I have to go to bed, now.( I am in Europe) ..so I cannot help further now.


EDIT: sorry, was another treat

[Elvis]

I hope you saw my Thank you to you on my other post,by the way Our band played Germany last year.
Elvis

[Elvis]

soppel
I hope you made it over here.
This system has be challenging, but I do have windows 7 for my wife running w/all the bells, surround sound.
and I do have some what av-linux running No sound, no cd. But I do Thank You for hanging in with me.
Thanks again.
Elvis

[Elvis]

well I must of done something wrong?, when I tried to reboot, it comes up to a black screen. oops.... I am now running off the cd, did I lose everything? do I have to reinstall everything?
I can still boot into windows, just not av5.
Elvis

[trulan]

I'm sure you didn't lose everything...If I recall correctly you had been having to set some special boot parameters to get the live cd to boot?  There may be a problem related to that, or it may be related to the video drivers (did you install the NVidia drivers as I recommended in the other thread?).  In any case, to try some optional boot parameters, you can hit 'e' to edit your AVLinux boot command, then hit 'ctrl-x' to boot.  It sounds to me like a video driver problem.

[Elvis]

trulan, Good to see you back
Yes, I think your right, it was right after I was messing around with the video installation. I thought I just might reinstall the driver, but I acted to fast and the installation said install/removal and it was already installed so I think it was removing it.
Ya, musicians do not make good geeks, but I'm trying.
I want so baddly to use av-linux to do all my mastering and mixes.
Elvis

[Elvis]

trulan and soppel
I think I'm trying to do to much at one time.Time to step back and take on one job at a time.
1. I need to see how to get my av5 up and running again, I'm running off my install CD?
      1.a. Grub menu still loads and I can boot into my windows but not avlinux5.
2. I need a way to get my sound working.
      2.a. Some parts of the system sees the Pioneer Audio Receiver, but not the programs.
3. Why does av5 not see my CD drive?
      3.a. It should at least see it as a CD player?

I would like to say that I'm so sorry and I feel bad, I feel that I'm asking to much of all of you and I'm taking up to much of your time. You've been so kind already and I'm so grateful for all that you all have done already. So if you do need to help someone else I do understand.
Pain in the Axx
Elvis

[trulan]

Did the 'blank screen' problem start immediately after installing the NVidia drivers, or did you reboot succesfully a few times after doing that?  Also, are you entering the ACPI boot parameters each time you reboot, or did you do something to make them be there by default?

[Elvis]

trulan
Each time I add the "pci=acpi  acpi=off" ~ without the quotation marks.
The blank dark sceen is after it runs thru what looks like the the beggining of the boot process and then it goes blank. Did something happen to the loader program or whatever you call it? Is their away to look at that or do I have to reinstall av5? I'm talking to you from windows it was faster than booting up from my av5 linux disc.
Elvis

PS I'll be back soon, I have to run to San Francisco for a bit.

[soppel]

Hei Elvis!  ( you have also a PM)

About 'having no sound'
It is important that you start ALSAmixer like I said before. And Jack. Both with the right soundcard.
Does jack running? Or does it stop? Are there messages?
If Jack is running without strange messages click on connections.
I guess you see at the left and the back 'system'
connect those two, what happens is there sound?
Start a MP3 in Clementine and than you see clementine at the left side in connections from jack. Is this connected to 'system' at the right side? No try to connect those two.

Okay, enough exercise for the day 

[trulan]

OK, what is happening is, the screen is going black when the system tries to load the graphics driver.  Here are several things to try:

1. In the Grub Boot menu, instead of selecting the first AVLinux boot option and adding "pci=acpi  acpi=off", choose the second AVLinux option, labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.0.16-avl-7 (Proprietary Video Driver Maintenance)'.  You will need to add "pci=acpi  acpi=off" to this just like you usually do.  It should boot up to a text login.  Enter 'root' for the username, then your root password.  Sgfxi will automatically reinstall the NVidia drivers and create an xorg.conf configuration file.  When it finished, select 'start desktop' and if all is well, you will be greeted with the AVLinux login screen.

2. If even Proprietary Video Driver Maintenance mode gives you a black screen, boot up onto your AVLinux LiveDVD.  Open the file manager, and find the file (on your AVLinux partition) /etc/X11/xorg.conf.  Open it with the Gedit text editor.  We're interested in this section of the file:

Code:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option      "Coolbits" "1"
Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option      "TripleBuffer" "false"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Yours may look a bit different;  What's important is the line that says 'Driver   "nvidia"'.  Change "nvidia" to "vesa", so it says

Code:

Driver "vesa"

("vesa" is the failsafe video driver)
Then, save the file, and try to boot into your AVLinux installation.

Let me know if step 1 works or doesn't work; if it doesn't, try step 2, and again, let me know if it works or not.

[Elvis]

soppel
Sorry, but whats a PM?

[soppel]

Hei Elvis!

PM = Play Music

No just kidding,
PM = Private Message
You can find those in the balk up under 'my messages'

[Elvis]

trulan
step 1 - maybe it would have worked if I knew more but it comes up with an ERROR: (190)
step 2 - gedit - will not let me save it, it says its a read only file
I'll be back a little later, gotta help the wife do something

[Elvis]

Well I guess I talk to much. I should learn to stick to what I'm trying to do with my system.
Live and Learn
Elvis

[Elvis]

I'm trying to change xorg.conf in gedit and it will not let me save it, it says it's a read only file. How can I change and save/replace this file?
Elvis

[soppel]

I guess you have to open it in the root-terminal.

TIP: make a copy of the original file, and rename it.  ( for example:  xorg_original.conf)  You can always put this one back if needed.

[trulan]

That's right, you have to be root to be able to modify xorg.conf.  Either use a root terminal, or (easier) in your file manager, select Tools / Open current folder as root, then right-click the file and open with gedit.  A backup is a good idea, you can also do that with the file manager in root mode.

[Elvis]

Just Got Back
To fix the problem it was easier for me to just reinstall av5, but this time time I left out the shared swap partition for windows/av5, because av5 can see and read windows and all the wife and I swap photos and music. I did try to change “xorg.conf” but booting off the cd I had a hard time with the file being a read only. But I'm up and running again.

I still have no sound, I went into terminal and typed in “alsamixer” and pressed F6 to change the card setting to  “HDA  Nvidia”, I've played with the inputs/outputs of jack, still no luck. In the menu/drop downs of  jack I do not see the Pioneer driver VSX-821, but if you go into “Tube” “Preference” “NVIDIA X Server Settings” and under “X Server Display Configuration” its listed as “Pioneer Electronic Corporation VSX-821 (DEP-1 on GPU-0)” Am I missing, maybe other type of settings?