Hey all!, I just installed linux today for the first time and i was really enjoying it until i discovered i had no sound!

Im using slackware 11, and every time i try to play audio i get this error:
The application Soundserver (artsd) crashed and caused the
signal 11 (SIGSEGV).

what the hell do i do!?! im really struggling and having no audio which means i pretty much have no choice but to go back to windows (which id rather not).

Any suggestions on what i could try to fix this?
I have tried various commands like alsamixer, alsactl store, alsaconf.. but i cant get it to work.

cheers, and please help me!

Have you updated all your packages after doing the install ? Also do you have the xine pacakages installed ?

No i havent installed any updates, and im not sure if i have the xine packages installed.

Could you give me directions on how to do these two things, cos i am really stuck now.

thanks for the response!

This is the backtracing log that the error shows, for all its worth:

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Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
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[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 16384 (LWP 2926)]
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[KCrash handler]
#5 0x4009ba16 in Arts::PlayObject_base::_create ()
from /opt/kde/lib/libkmedia2_idl.so.1
#6 0x08055135 in ?? ()
#7 0xbfffcc60 in ?? ()
#8 0xbfffcc90 in ?? ()
#9 0xbfffcd30 in ?? ()
#10 0xbfffcc54 in ?? ()
#11 0x080f17a0 in ?? ()
#12 0x00ffcd4c in ?? ()
#13 0xbfffcd30 in ?? ()
#14 0xbfffcd50 in ?? ()
#15 0x00000000 in ?? ()

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And have a look at this guide in this forum in the slackware section it may pay to have a good look at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=174447