alsa woes yet again..
 

i upgraded to current and it broke my sound..
if i run alsaconf it cant find any sound cards
i then upgraded my kernel and i did not include alsa so i would be able to install from packages or source...
i tried installing the alsa driver pkg from testing/ ? but that didn't work
what should i do?

Make sure the version of the alsa-driver package matches the kernel version, or get the latest alsa-driver source file from http://www.alsa-project.org/ and recompile.

Hope that helps.

Cheers, Leon.

i would like to install from packages
the kernel installed is 2.6.12.1? and the package was for 2.6.11
are there any packages built for 2.6.12.1 ?

I'm afraid there isn't. According to Slackware's changelog:
Compiling alsa-driver isn't that difficult, ALSA provides detailed instructions specific for your soundcard, check http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/

Cheers, Leon.

i just want it as a package so i can easily remove it with pkgtool and install a newer version if necessary...

I had a silmilar problem on my daughters pc running slackware current after upgrading from kernel 2.4.31 to kernel 2.6.12.2.

To fix it I did this

1. Uninstall the three alsa pkg's using pkgtool.

2. Then reinstalled them from slackware current packages.

3. Next restart X.

4. Run alsaconf.

5. Run alsamixer.

6. Then alsactl store.


I haven't had a problem since.

Hope it helps :)

mainve: if you read my post i upgraded to current and running alsaconf didnt work

i suppose i'll just compile from source...

Use checkinstall, which let's you compile from source and create a package which can be uninstalled using removepkg.

What sound card do you have by the way?

thanks ljsbrokken i'll try that

Ok I installed with checkinstall, I ran alsaconf and it found my card and loaded the modules fine. I then tried to run alsamixer and I get alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory...
I also tried creating a package from the SlackBuild script and installed that but it didnt alsaconf didn't even detect my card... I modified it so it would configure --with-cards=intel8x0
Any suggestions?

add to /etc/hotplug/blacklist. Has something to do with the soundcard of the modem being recognised as card0. Adding it to blacklist prevents it to be loaded.

I knew about that from before and now it is already included in the -current blacklist

Any more suggestions? :(

When you compiled alsa, which things did you compile? You've to rebuild alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-utils (alsa-oss to if you want oss emulation, recommended).