I have Slack 8.0 running kernel 2.4.5 on a Toshiba Satellite laptop model 3005-S307.
Someone on the net sucessfully loaded the ALSA drivers and got sound working but he has RedHat 7.0. It doesn't work for me. I included his lines in rc.modules which were: #ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-intel8x0 #OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss I think the problem has to do with the BSD init scripts used by Slackware since the ALSA drivers seem to be built around Sys V. The gory details are below - don't bother to read unless you are interested... As mentioned on the alsa site I enabled sound support with soundcore in rc.modules. I downloaded and untarred the following from the ALSA site: alsa-driver-0.5.12a.tar.tgz alsa-lib-0.5.10b.tar.tgz alsa-utils-0.5.10.tar.tgz In the alsa-driver directory I did ./configure make install without incident. It appears to complete ok. I see that references appear to /usr/src/linux but the .config file is not changed. Maybe some of the scripts change? In the other two, alsa-lib and alsa-utils, ./configure aborts on the lines: checking for libasound headers version >= 0.5.8... not present. configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found. I looked for libasound drivers on the net and only found some foreign language sites. Nothing that looked like source. I suspect that alsa isn't working because they expect Sys V init scripts instead of BSD. Even when I get the alsa drivers working I may not get sound unless I can get past the line in modules.conf that loads smixer which says on boot-up: smixer: open /dev/mixer: No such device. In fact ls -l /dev/mixer gives: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Apr 11 18:55 /dev/mixer -> /dev/mixer0 which was apparently created by the make install above and crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 0 Apr 11 18:55 /dev/mixer0. Before the make install I had a simple /dev/mixer but that also always gave the "no such device" message. I changed permissions chmod a+rw /dev/dsp*, /dev/mixer*, /dev/audio* I hope someone can give me a hint on how to get this going on Slack as I like that distro very much. Larry Alkoff N2LA Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
