Need help configuring sound card

[dorumuresan]

Hi,

I have Slackware 12.2 running on a Compaq Presario F700 laptop.
I am having problems configuring my sound card.
I ran alsaconf , it detected and installed my sound card.... everything ok
alsamixer -> unmuted everything
but i still get mixer cannot be found when running Kmix
alsa detected my sound card as being hda-intel

Please help,
Thank You

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome to the forums.
Are you sure that you have installed kmix? You shouldn't need kmix if you have alsamixer installed, they both do the same thing.

[Freston]

Welcome to the forums!

And what is your sound card?

/sbin/lspci|grep -i audio
#or
/sbin/lspci|grep -i sound

[dorumuresan]

# /sbin/lspci|grep -i audio
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio (rev a1)

and here is my lsmod if it helps

Module Size Used by
snd_seq_dummy 6788 0
snd_seq_oss 33408 0
snd_seq_midi_event 10240 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50928 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10380 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 40480 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6 241956 12
pcmcia 36524 0
pcmcia_core 35604 1 pcmcia
lp 13572 0
ppdev 11268 0
parport_pc 28196 0
parport 34796 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
fuse 54684 7
nvidia 7220952 28
ath5k 101248 0
mac80211 158108 1 ath5k
ricoh_mmc 7808 0
led_class 7684 1 ath5k
cfg80211 27144 2 ath5k,mac80211
sdhci_pci 11136 0
sdhci 18564 1 sdhci_pci
mmc_core 49820 1 sdhci
k8temp 8192 0
snd_hda_intel 367756 0
snd_pcm 70788 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 23176 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 10756 1 snd_hda_intel
snd 51748 9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd _mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwd ep
soundcore 10080 1 snd
agpgart 32584 1 nvidia
forcedeth 55952 0
evdev 13088 6
thermal 19484 0
psmouse 40592 0
serio_raw 9220 0
button 10128 0
processor 36648 1 thermal
video 20624 5
output 6656 1 video
ac 8196 0
sg 30516 0
wmi 9768 0
thermal_sys 15144 3 thermal,processor,video
hwmon 6300 2 k8temp,thermal_sys
battery 14340 0

[Freston]

There where some interesting things about nvdia audio on the ALSA site. But I know not enough about the hardware to make something of it. It seems nvdia audio is actually Intel? That's how I read it anyway. I know it's not about the vendor of the hardware but about the particular chipset, so in theory it is possible I guess.

Make a search on their site about your hardware, you'll find it

[MikeTbob]

I'm using the exact same card as you, see my output here.

00:09.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP73 High Definition Audio (rev a1)

While mine uses the snd-intel8x0 module, yours has loaded the snd_hda_intel module as seen in your above post.
I would suggest that you try removing the snd_hda_intel module with this command

modprobe -r snd_hda_intel

Then try loading the snd-intel8x0 module with this command.

modprobe snd-intel8x0

If you get no errors or anything, then try playings some tunes or something.
Good Luck!

[dorumuresan]

I loaded the snd-intel8x0 module and now I get the following error message when restarting the sound fro Control Center:

Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

[MikeTbob]

And still no sound? I have gotten that error before too and sometimes it safe to ignore.
Try these comands and post the output please.

ll /dev/dsp

You may need to be in the audio group for access to /dev/dsp
If /dev/dsp doesn't exist then you can create it with this command

mknod /dev/dsp c 14 3

[dorumuresan]

/dev/dsp exists I did not need to create it, but the command doesn't work:
ll /dev/dsp
-su: ll: command not found

[MikeTbob]

Try adding yourself to the audio group with this command

gpasswd -a user audio

where user is the actual username.
After you modprobe -r snd_hda_intel and modprobe snd-intel8x0, issue this command too and post the output here please.

dmesg