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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).
#!/bin/sh
# $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
# merge in defaults and keymaps
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
if [ -f $userresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $userresources
fi
if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
xmodmap $usermodmap
fi
#custom mouse buttom remap
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"
# Start the window manager:
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/startfluxbox
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. 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?
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...
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!
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.
IF you have your speakers connected via analog connection, have you made sure that you have selected analog output in the sound mixer?
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...)
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Ain't working like it used to
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?
