Slackware 10.1 snd-intel8x0 no sound

Hi, I am a newbee to linux. I have recently installed slackware 10.1. everything is fine but, there is no sound. I have integrated sound card with my intel 845gl mother board. I did run the alsa mixer and unmuted. I have black listed the snd-intel8x0m as adviced by some threads. still no luck. I could play my dvds with xine with out sound. when i run the lsmod and lspci the sound card did appear. please somebody help.

thanks in advance.

did you run alsaconf?

yes. and it did show my sound card which I have selected and finished the remaining setup.
thanks for responding. Kindly tell me what should I do now??

just to recap:

- you ran alsaconf
- you unmuted both master and pcm in alsamixer
- you checked lsmod and your snd module is listed

the basics seem to be covered. the hotplug blacklisting i'm a little iffy on. my sound modules are not in the blacklist and my sound works. maybe try it with and without. do you have sound running things as root?

another idea if you haven't done it yet would be to check your bios to make sure the integrated sound is enabled, and check your hardware, make sure volumes are up, speakers are on, cords are in the proper jack, etc. (don't laugh, it happened to me last week after adding a hard drive. ) have you ever had sound on that computer?

Thanks for the response and I completely agree on what you said. My speakers are very much on and working with windows xp. However I could not run the alsaconfig as a normal user. I could run alsamixer but couldn't store. so I did all that sa root. does that really matter??

Originally posted by rgogada Thanks for the response and I completely agree on what you said. My speakers are very much on and working with windows xp. However I could not run the alsaconfig as a normal user. I could run alsamixer but couldn't store. so I did all that sa root. does that really matter??

you run alsaconf as root, and alsamixer as user. then you run alsactl store as root to store the settings.

why don't you post your kernel sound options and lsmod? it's possible you're missing something. i would think that would make alsa fail somewhere, but maybe not.

As this is a Slackware problem this post is now in the Slackware forum

I have sound running on a Slackware 10.1 machine that also uses the intel8x0 ASLA drivers. It's a different motherboard (Asus), but maybe this output could serve as a reference.

/sbin/lsmod

snd-pcm-oss            38304   0
snd-mixer-oss          13688   0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-intel8x0           19808   0
snd-ac97-codec         66012   0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm                59208   0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec]
snd-timer              14948   0 [snd-pcm]
snd                    34788   0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer]
soundcore               3652   4 [snd]
snd-page-alloc          4968   0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd]

cat /etc/modules.conf

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0

# ALSA module options should go here

# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

I have this exact same problem :\ I guess I will try enabling OSS.

For me, i can only have sound when i have master, headphone and pcm all turned up and unmute. I dont know why i need to unmute headphone, but i must do it in order to get sound. maybe you have a strange pc like mine too, try it.

In alsamixer, turn off (mute):
* Headphone Jack Sense
* Line Jack Sense
I'm almost sure that'll do the trick!

Cheers, Leon.

Originally posted by LJSBrokken In alsamixer, turn off (mute): * Headphone Jack Sense * Line Jack Sense I'm almost sure that'll do the trick! Cheers, Leon.

This always works for me.

un believable. thanks Leon. it worked for me too.