Hello out there,

I am a happy user of Slackware 13, but there is an annoying problem with ALSA (or anything else??) on my system.

Sometimes (rather often) only one speaker of my system plays music.

I use plain Slackware 13, without /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc

-- ALSA restart /etc/rc.d/rc.alsa doesn`t help
-- muting/unmuting the mixer doesn`t help
-- Rebooting the PC helps - most of the times

Does anybody has the same problem or a solution ??

Thanks for all help!!

Heiko




1. )My Card is

bash-3.1$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [CA0106 ]: CA0106 - CA0106
Live! 7.1 24bit [SB0410] at 0x9c00 irq 22


2.) All modules are properly loaded

bash-3.1$ lsmod |grep snd
snd_seq_dummy 2464 0
snd_seq_oss 29792 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5980 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 47984 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 37728 0
snd_mixer_oss 14300 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_ca0106 32864 4
snd_rawmidi 19040 1 snd_ca0106
snd_seq_device 6088 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 100128 1 snd_ca0106
ac97_bus 1372 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 68128 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 19108 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 50820 16 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ca0106,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,s nd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 5824 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7972 2 snd_ca0106,snd_pcm

Most likely to be a hardware fault as software faults generally lead to no sound at all.

Please check your cables and connectors (try others, jiggle / reconnect the connectors while music is playing out of the one speaker).

Welcome to LQ!