On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:04:27 +0800
Andres Montiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Before, I had RedHat 6.2 on my laptop. However, I recently migrated to
> Slackware.
>
> My problem is configuring the soundcard. In RedHat 6.2, I used the command
> soundconfig (I forgot the exact name, though) to set the IRQs and stuff (I
> had to do that to make my sound card work properly). Now, there is no
> soundconfig in Slackware.
It's called 'sndconfig' :) Maybe it's just not installed?
> Some tutorials also say to edit the conf.modules.
> Somehow, I don't have it on my system.
See the /etc/modules.conf file.
> I know that the proper module for my soundcard (an ESS ES1688) is compiled in
> to the kernel. I checked it with lsmod.
I don't understand the sentence above: which (ALSA or OSS/Free) module are you
referring to? What does lsmod show? What kernel are you running?
> I even inserted "modprobe
> snd-card-es1688" in the /etc/rc.d/rc.M. Still no luck.
Maybe you just haven't installed the ALSA drivers? Try (as root)
'modprobe snd-card-es1688' .
> I also tried "cat /dev/dsp" to test the sound card (I read somewhere to do
> this to test the soundcard), but I get the message "No such device"
>
> - Andres Montiel
Let the list know how it goes. Btw, I read that Slackware is not a _newbie_
friendly distribution. SuSE, Mandrake, RedHat and others are and try
(sometimes unsuccesfully) to automagically set up your sound. HTH,
-Frans
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