I'm currently running Slackware 10 on a Asus Terminator DDR system (Athlon processor & SiS chipset). I recently re-installed Slack 10 and used swaret to update & upgrade the system. But on reboot, the X server kept falling over (back to a command prompt). After installing Dropline gnome, this overcame the Xserver issue. But, the Alsa system isn't running. The error that I am getting on bootup is a missing module - snd-intel8x0.

Question(s):

1) How do I go back and recreate this module? (this module is from the initial system install)
2) Has anyone else noticed this this problem when upgrading via swaret?

Ben

The more quick and efficient solution in my mind is :

download alsa driver :
ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/drive...1.0.6a.tar.bz2

then unpack and configure it with only your audio card :
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc --with-oss=yes \
--with-sequencer=yes --with-cards=intel8x0

make
removepkg alsa-driver
make install (or checkinstall, up to you)
alsaconf
alsamixer
alsactl store

Cedrik

Thanks for that tip! I'll give that a go when I get back home tonight. That thought never crossed my mind.

Ben

im having the same problem. i get to the running of "alsamixer" part, then it says "no mixer elems found". what gives?

regarding the "no mixer elems found" part, try adding "snd-intel8x0m" to the /etc/hotplug/blacklist file. reboot and run alsaconf

blacklisting snd-intel8x0m did it for me. I now have sound for the first time ever in slackware (10).

Thanks, usercsr!!

add "snd-intel8x0m" to /etc/hotplug/blacklist
reboot
alsaconf (follow defaults)

when back to slackware 10 from suse 9.1, and got sound working again by blacklisting it.

thanks for the blacklisting suggestion.

I was having problems with this as well. I followed the steps and still had no sound. I ran alsaconf again and saw a message it displayed right before exiting and managed to highlight it:
What would cause this?

What steps did you follow ?

If I'm not mistaken, 9.1 comes with precompiled modules for ALSA. Or did you recompile your kernel and brake those?

Recompiled and broke them.

Ok...my suggestion is to run just ./configure, without all those options. Proceed as usual after that.