Thanks Stu, Like you I could not locate "alsaconfig" but I did get "alsamixer" to run and unmuted the outputs. When I insert a music CD Dolphin reports that "the device does not have read permissions for this account. Check the read permissions on the device". If I put a DVD with picture files in the same drive I can view them with no problem so it suggests a problem with KDE rather than in fstab. For some reason KMixer did not install on the initial set up and I have not solved the problem of installing a tar.xz file in SlackWare; lets hope there is some guidance available this evening. Iain
On Wednesday 06 Feb 2013 09:41:56 Stuart Bird wrote: Hi Iain At last, a fellow "slacker" on the list! Telephone complaints 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 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 _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
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