No sound, gone through all options

[vfronda]

Hey, I just switched over from gentoo to slackware. The installation was amazing, way less time, no problems. Everything is worked out except for the sound. I have compiled the driver into the kernel, as a module, installed alsa again, added my name to audio group, tried to find all the mixers and unmute them, everything is showing that my computer sees the sound card, loaded the modules, but no sound. I'm not even getting any errors, i dont think.

I'm pretty sure this is a slackware related problem, becuase this is very odd. I've gone through this before in gentoo, but the problem was usually obvious. Or at least it gave me some feedback.

Can anyone help me??

thank you in advance
vfronda

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !!

did you execute 'alsaconf' command?

[rudie_rage]

Hey, I just switched over from gentoo to slackware. The installation was amazing, way less time, no problems. Everything is worked out except for the sound. I have compiled the driver into the kernel, as a module, installed alsa again, added my name to audio group, tried to find all the mixers and unmute them, everything is showing that my computer sees the sound card, loaded the modules, but no sound. I'm not even getting any errors, i dont think.

I'm pretty sure this is a slackware related problem, becuase this is very odd. I've gone through this before in gentoo, but the problem was usually obvious. Or at least it gave me some feedback.

Can anyone help me??

thank you in advance
vfronda

Dont know what to say other than make sure the speakers are on and plugged in :P
Have you tried another program? sometimes its just that a program has so many sound settings that you cant find them all to turn them on.

[Juan Pablo]

You will always need to run 'alsaconf' after any Slackware install

[mahlerfan]

In addition to what was said about alsaconf, you should

(a) check the permissions on your kernel module to make sure it's executable.
(b) Modprobe your kernel module to manually load it.
(c) And for the future, you might have to edit /etc/modules.conf to get it to autoload. This file might not exist but trust me it will be read if you create it and add your kernel module in there to be read. See this code in /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa--

 
# If there are ALSA modules defined in /etc/modules.conf, but
# ALSA is not yet loaded, then load the modules now:
  DRIVERS=`modprobe -c | grep -E "^[[:space:]]*alias[[:space:]]+snd-card-[[:digit:]]" | awk '{ print $3 }'`
  if [ ! "$DRIVERS" = "" ]; then
    echo "Loading ALSA kernel modules."
    for module in $DRIVERS; do
      modprobe $module
    done
  fi

[vfronda]

I did run alsaconf, many times.

how exactly do i check the permissions on the module.

I think all the modules for the sound card are loaded, there are like 20 of them. sorry i cant be more of a help.

vfronda

[Juan Pablo]

Search for your card on the ALSA card matrix

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - ALSA Soundcard Matrix

[mahlerfan]

To check if your module is executable, in the directory where your module is go ls -l.

Do you know that your new module in particular is loaded, or just the old modules? It sounded like you were unsure there.

[vfronda]

what directory can I find the modules. I checked my rc.alsa file, I don't know what I'm looking for. Also in /etc/modprobe.d/sound file it reads

alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0

thank you
vfronda

[vfronda]

I don't know if this helps, but my cpu beeps instead of the speaker making sounds, it's like my computer knows the sound is down and it beeps instead.

thanks
vfronda