Need a little help with ALSA?

[southpaw]

Hello all,
I have Slackware-11 installed on my Dell Dimension 4500. I am trying to get the sound to work but I don't seem to be getting anywhere .
I'm using a SB Audigy2 Platinum, here's my spec's...

# lspci -v
02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device 1002
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
        I/O ports at d800 [size=64]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

02:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 04)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device 0060
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=8]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

02:0c.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
        Memory at ff9fe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Memory at ff9f8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

...and my kernel setup

Linux-2.6.17.13
Sound-->
<M> Sound card support
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture --->
<M> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
<M> Sequencer Support
<M> OSS Mixer API
<M> OSS PCM (digital audio) API
[*] OSS PCM (digital audio) API - Include plugin system
[*] OSS Sequencer API
[*] Verbose procfs contents
PCI devices --->
<M> Emu10k1 (SB Live!, Audigy, E-mu APS)

...and finally, my modules

snd_seq_oss            31360  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      6016  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                47824  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            39712  0 
snd_mixer_oss          16896  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_emu10k1           119972  0 
snd_rawmidi            20256  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec         91808  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_bus            2048  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                78216  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device          6540  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer              20996  3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          7944  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            3456  1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep               7044  1 snd_emu10k1
snd                    45924  11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep

...My two main problems atm are :
a)I can't hear any sound when I try to play CD through XMMS
b)I can't hear any sound when I am on a web page that uses flash(I'm using Firefox2 with Flash9)

Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated, thanx...

[alexpmcmurphy]

have you run alsaconf? (or is it alsaconfig? i can never rember)
have you run alsamixer?
if running conf and it finds your sound card them mixer and turn up all the volume levels that might solve your problem

[southpaw]

Yeah I did all that. I've gotten it to work, I'm just not exactly sure how .
I went ahead and started recompiling all my packages after the alsa-driver(alsa-firmware, alsa-lib, etc..etc..). Afterwards, I began switching the speaker cable between the three output jacks of my soundcard (after all this is a 6.1 surround sound card). At that point I went ahead and replayed my Zappa CD and viola! The strange thing though is that without ever having touched that cable under Windows the audio played fine, go figure .