Hello again, people!

I got my install up and running... life is good, nothing seems broken, but after figuring out how to use mpg321... I have no sound.

At first, when I'd installed, I'd get a message saying my sound was turned off, I could go into the 'alsamixer' I believe it was or (something to that effect. 'alsa-something') and turn it on... I wish I could remember it exactly, it's dissapeared since I did exactly that.

I have onboard sound.
I've got a Gigabyte GA7-VAX board, and according to their website, it has a 'Realtek ALC650 AC97 6-channel codec Chip'

I did a bit of poking around here in the forums, and came across someone suggestion to run 'lspci' and this is what it tells me:

Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)

I'm assuming then, that Linux knows perfectly well what my card is... so if I've got the volume turned on, any idea why I don't hear anything? aside from the speakers being turned off

Thank-you for your time.
~EA~

As root type

alsaconfig (or is it alsaconf?)

then

alsamixer, if it asks you to.

then

alsactl store

Give it a go.

between alsamixer and alsactl store unmute the 'master', is probably that

Thank-you all.
It was alsamixer that I'd run originally (I can say that upon restumbling across it), and had previousy unmuted master, which is why that message at boot-up dissapeared. (hence not being 100% sure of the name.)

I ran alsaconf (I know how to use the TAB key *beams*), and then peeked at things with alsamixer afterwards, however I now have a different problem. My audio sounds heavily saturated and fairly distorted. I know it's not my speakers, because I can pump out alot more than that. I ran alsamixer and lowered the volume on different things that were running, but it only made it quieter, it didn't take away the muffled static sound.

Thank-you all again for the help you've given, I greatly appreciate it! And thank-you as well, in future.

~EA~

have you tried running with madplay? I have hissing sound coming out from my speakers when i used mpg321. But madplay is just clean and sweet, try it. Not sure why changing player can solve the problem though, anyhow...

If PCM is up too high, that will happen... Thats the only thing I have to offer... Sorry.

Thanks again.

I don't believe I installed madplay (but that's easily fixed... right?) 'cause I only wanted the one, but I'll try it.

thanks again for everyone's help.

http://www.slackware.com/pb/search.p...string=madplay

grap your madlplay here.

Awesome
I hadn't gotten that far with my other problems I've been having. Music became such a lower priority than Xwindows...

Greatly appreciated, thank-you.