My sound was working fine after a full Slack 10 install. The other day I recompiled my kernel to include APM support (I only added this support, didn't change anything else). After doing so, my sound will not work (even if I use the old kernel). I'm pretty sure it's a simple module problem, but i'm not well versed in this area unfortunately.

When I start X, I get an error saying /dev/dsp: no such device

alsamixer reports: alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

alsaconf will not detect the card

Info:

Laptop: Averatec 6130HS
OS: Slackware 10 full install
Kernel: 2.4.26

LSMOD:

ac97 2944 0 (unused)
soundcore 3396 0 (autoclean)
rt2500 163200 2
keybdev 2052 0 (unused)
mousedev 4212 1
hid 21220 0 (unused)
usbmouse 2040 0 (unused)
input 3200 0 [keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse]
ohci1394 24112 0 (unused)
ieee1394 42244 0 [ohci1394]
usb-ohci 19240 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 17580 0 (unused)
usbcore 59308 1 [hid usbmouse usb-ohci ehci-hcd]
sis900 12396 0
crc32 2880 0 [sis900]
ds 6548 2
yenta_socket 10336 2
pcmcia_core 39940 0 [ds yenta_socket]
ntfs 51424 1 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 9328 0
agpgart 43940 0 (unused)

LSPCI:

00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp: Unknown device 5104
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
I/O ports at ec00 [size=128]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

Thanks in advance!

The pat answer is to get out your Slack CDs and to reinstall
the ALSA packages with installpkg. Then run alsaconf and you
should be good to go. If that doesn't work, post back.

Wow, that did it. Thank you so much!