Sound question
 

I'm trying to configure the sound on my laptop and I cant hear anything. The modules loaded fine (snd-intel8x0). I can play music in XMMS and I get no error messages and I get no error messages in dmesg. Any ideas?

Specs.
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System: Inpsiron 9100
Alsa Ver. 1.6
Slackware 10.0

Thanks

My question would be.. what are those error messages in your logs? Could be anything at this point, without details? ;) Did you try turning up the volume?

Yea, used alsamixer to turn the volume up and there are no error messages in my logs. I must be overlooking something. I said above I got NO error messages.

Permissions on the sound device(s)?

I know I have to change the permissions on /dev/dsp* /dev/snd* to 777, but what other devices? Thanks.

Umm.. no, make it 666 and try changing it on /dev/mixer as well. Also, you said you used the alsamixer, have you tried any other volume control applications? Like if your using gnome, use gnome-volume-control or something along those lines?

I was in KDE trying to use that volume control, but nothing worked so I used gnome-volume-control and worked perfectly. For some reason, my volume was being controlled by "Phone Out" which I never would have thought to turn up until now. Do you know the significance of this? Also do you know what PCM stands for? Thanks alot.

I would have no idea why it would be controlled by 'phone out', perhaps you have your speakers plugged in wrong on the sound card? And PCM, I think it stands for Pulse Code Modulation..

This is silly, but did you remember to unmute in addition to changing the volume?

amixer set Master 100 unmute
amixer set PCM 70 unmute