Ain't working like it used to
 

I got Slackware11.0 up and running now on my pc. Standard setup, with 2.4.33 kernel. Everything is setup smoothly just like before, all my devices are detected, but they are acting weird.

First, I still no longer have DRI with my radeon generic driver. I haven't had DRI since 10.0, but thats not really such a big deal.

Second, my mouse is no longer behaving like it should. It is a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer mouse, 5 buttons, and this is what I have for my xorg.conf (did not use existing xorg.conf, reran xorgconfig).
And of course, my .xinitrc
However, I can no longer scroll through pages like before.

Thirdly, and most important issue. No more sound. This is a strange issue here. My soundcard IS detected, just like before. I made sure I set the sound levels with alsamixer, and saved alsactl store as root, but when I play sounds, there is nothing. :scratch: So, I made sure to check that speakers were plugged in, sound on the speakers turned up to the apropriate level, made sure the speakers where connected, and still nothing. I did not have this problem before, until 11.0. So what should I do now?

Sound Problem
 

I'm not sure about your other problems, but have you tried running alsaconf? If not, that should solve your problem. Good luck.

~Kc

EDIT: IGNORE this, simcox1 is correct
should be
Don't know about the sound, I'm afraid.

Your mouse problem is probably due to changes for .Xmodmap. I used to use

pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5

but that no longer works. But this does

pointer = 1 2 3 4 5 8 9 6 7 10 11

xorg now recognises that my mouse has more buttons, so you have to adjust .Xmodmap for it to work.

Ok. As for my sound issue. I did try running alsaconf. It found my card, and it reconfigured, but still nothing. I even ran xmms through xterm to see if there are any errors, nothing. Xmms plays, but there is just no sound... :scratch:

Run 'rexima' in a terminal and check there if the volumes are ok.... I've got a feeling they will be at '0' value.

For the sound problem, run alsamixer and set all the volumes (not, headphone jack sense and line jack sense may need to be set to off (or not set at all) as they tend to interfere with the sound).

Afterwards, run alsactl store to save the settings. Then open kmix or other volume control and set the volumes again.

Ok, well rexima shows that all volumes are set above zero. Alsamixer reports the same thing, however I went in and set the mic to zero, and tried it again, still no sound.... grrr!

How are you testing if the sound works or not?

I am testing just by running xmms. I even tried playing mp3s through mpg321. It plays, but no sound. I am at a loss. Sound technically works, some setting that I can't find could be the problem, because if sound didn't work, I would get an error message through xmms or mpg321, instead of it actually playing. If you want to know, this is the output for lsmod btw.

Might be a shot in the dark, but what output plugin are you using within XMMS?

IF you have your speakers connected via analog connection, have you made sure that you have selected analog output in the sound mixer?

sorry if this is a dumb suggestion...

Possibly, but I wouldn't know how to do that. I never had to do that. As soon as I changed the volume settings with alsamixer, things were ok, I have been doing this since Slackware10.0

As for xmms, I am using ALSA. Plus, I did make sure ot add my username to the sound in /etc/group.

well, if you happen to have an audigy series soundcard like me you type alsamixer and then enable the "Audigy A" item (press "m" on it). I know of this because I've had to do it with ALMOST every distro I tried all the time (maybe you could just have been lucky enough to miss this problem before?)... ;-)

give it a try and see if it helps... (I did it right now for my slack install...)

(edit)

sorry I missed the fact it was a VIA card...

That does not work either. Plus this is a VIA chipset, not audigy A. Alsamixer reports the soundcard as VIA 82C686A/B rev12.