got a few questions, hopefully someone can help me out...(using Slackware 8.1)

1. When i reboot i have no sound, i have to open gmix, just open and the sound comes on, i have the levels set to default and all so dont have to adjust the sliders. just open it real quick....why is that??? its really not a big deal, but just wondering why

2. If I open konqueror from a terminal i get this message right before it opens.....

LibGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
LibGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering

3. On occasions when i open something in fluxbox it doesnt open the right way, it goes into the top left corner and can only see the tab, only happens once in a while tho. I have to close and reopen.

4. How can i get kppp to dock into the slit on fluxbox?? if i choose dock on connect it goes into the corner like i explained in question 3, when i was using mandrake i had no problems, it docked right in there.

Thanks for any help everyone

Just an answer to #1...

The hardware gets initialized to 0 for all channels,
and the driver doesn't change that ... to have it "noisy"
by default you might want to look at command-line mixers
and add one to your startup-script (distro-dependend)

Cheers,
Tink

My sound does not act that way, could it be that there is a driver not loaded?

I don't know, but try running lsmod before and after opening the mixer. See if there is a difference.

#2 may be a file permissions problem. Does it do the same thing with the root user.

2. you cannot run Xbased applicaotn from terminal. try to run in Xbased environment

3. check the kppp dialer setting-> misc check for the option minize window when connect.

yea the #2 was a permission problem, and about #3 when i click minimize it just goes into the taskbar (fluxbox) i just send to desktop 2,3,4 to get out of the way, read somewhere i need a patch, and about the sound, didnt check the module thing yet, but do you use KDE Phillips?? because with KDE i noticed that the kmix settings get saved with the session and when reboot sound comes back right away....guess in fluxbox there isnt a way to save the session, although when i was using mandrake it did save....but maybe i do have a problem since my sound has been going out every once in a while.....installed ALOT of stuff today, so maybe that had something to do with it???? -thanks everyone

Ah yes, it must be a window manager thing.

I use window maker, gnome, and kde

ok, David, you were right, the sound modules arent loaded when i reboot, once i open a mixer they load. And also every certain amount of hours it goes out also, this is starting to confuse me now, lol.

EDIT: i found this........

"When the ALSA sound driver loads it mutes all the settings. I use a script at startup which sets things to defaults that I feel are reasonable and safe. Every time the laptop goes into power saving mode I have to unmute the settings again as well."

So that must be it, when the moniter shuts off by itself after a certain amount of time the sound mutes?? i guess/hope that the problem.

Just took Tinksters advice and added a few lines to startup script and works on boot now. -thanks

cool