Hi Iain
At last, a fellow "slacker" on the list!
I had a similar problem recently when I installed to a machine that had an
after market sound card in it. The first thing to try is the standard way of
setting up sound in Slackware. That is to open a terminal and as root run
"alsaconfig". If that works you should be presented with a series of columns
which you mute, un-mute and set volume levels etc. Once you have set everything
you want, exit "alsaconfig" and then run "alsactl store". Logout and then in
again to see if you have sound.
The bad news is that when I tried that I could not get "alsaconfig" to launch
as it seemed to be missing. I was using XFCE, not KDE and was able to access
the mixer from the volume icon in the top panel. I then tried variations from
the drop down box at the top of the mixer window until I found something that
gave me sound. It was always a bit flaky after that and I sometimes had to
logout and then in again after booting up to get sound again.
I know that Slackware have just released a kernel update in the last few days,
as well as other patches. It may be worth looking at applying the kernel patch
as version 14 was their first venture into 3.X kernels and I think they played
it a bit safe. Now they have had time to work with it there may be more
features available.
Sorry it's all a bit vague, I'm not at my box at the moment and won't be until
much later today.
Hope that helps.
Stu
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From: Iain <iain.har...@ntlworld.com>
To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts <peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, 3 February 2013, 22:03
Subject: [Peterboro] Sound problem
I am running Slackware 14 with KDE on a Supermicro P4 with an Ensonique 1371
sound card but cannot get any sound output. The card operates under XP so
there is some hope for it!
The following appears to show that the relevant modules are loaded
root@Server:~# /sbin/lsmod | grep snd_ens1371
snd_ens1371 16095 0
snd_ac97_codec 89635 1 snd_ens1371
snd_rawmidi 14662 1 snd_ens1371
gameport 6288 1 snd_ens1371
snd_pcm 59013 3 snd_ac97_codec,snd_ens1371,snd_pcm_oss
snd 43657 10
snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ens1371,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_oss
but I cannot find any way of accessing the mixer which I think defaults to all
outputs muted. Can anyone help?
Regards
Iain
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