Hi!

OK I just set up Slackware 10.0 here, and so I got to work everything properly. Everything but my sound. Alsaconf installs the right sound driver and if i test the sound system in kde i get sound over the ALSA Sound System and also the OSS Sound System. But in both cases its very unclear and it sounds like a scratched CD.

Thanks in advance for you help

Canaris

Please list your hardware.

Hi!

If I start the gnome-volume-control it show one tab for OSS and one for ALSA.
The OSS tab shows that i have a Yamaha YMF753 and the ALSA Tab says that i have a Interl 82801CA-ICH3.
Actually i do have a Sony Vaio GRZ-615M. Unfortunately I don't know which one is the right one. But as a matter of fact neither one works properly. I can change between ALSA and OSS in the KDE Sound control and both times the same problem (as explained above) appears.

Thanks for the help

Canaris

Please print what /sbin/lspci displays.

The Sony Vaio GRZ-615M is the model and brand of your computer not the hardware.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
02:05.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a8)
02:05.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a8)
02:05.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42

On-board sound in Linux does not work well because each manufacture programs the chipsets differently and they use different audio chips. You can try if OSS has a driver for your sound device, but it is not free. You can try compile all of ALSA latest drivers. The driver you should be using is snd-intel8x0. If that does not work open up your computer and find some chips. Look for chips that ALSA has on their list.

The easiest is buy a PCI sound card that ALSA has support for.