General: Xterm(shell) and Sound

killi · 05-14-2007, 03:30 PM

Hi

Long time since last post here, but atm i am refreshing up my old Slackware skills and getting back into the big world of slack/Linux. Was using it full time for some years but i was over at the dark windows side for some years now lately.

So two things that are bugging me atm:
Xterm:
When i start a new xterm(whatever term) i get

Code:

bash-3.1#

instead of

Code:

user@mybox:

I know that if i do

Code:

source /etc/profile

i get the user@mybox: but where can i set this up as an default, right now i use the command every time i launch a shell and that is too much work just to get a shell opened:P

Another thing is that i dont get any sound, lspci says:

Code:

root@Iluvatar:/home/loath# lspci | grep audio
00:13.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP04 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a1)

So it gets discovered, but it dosnt work to play sounds with program, so what steps do i have to do?(any howto or a walktrough bye any of you guys would be super)

After this is said, i would like to say thank you! All you guys here at the LQ but especially at the Slackware community is doing a magnificent job! Keep it up!

Thanks
Killi

pdw_hu · 05-14-2007, 03:34 PM

Add:

Code:

export PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '

to your .bashrc file.
Also read the bash manpage for more info.

For sound: look around in alsamixer

MS3FGX · 05-14-2007, 03:38 PM

You want to treat each terminal as a login shell, which will run the profile settings each time. I am not sure how you would do this in plain xterm, but I know there are other terminals that either allow that as an option or do it by default, like Eterm or the XFCE terminal.

As for the sound issue, you should start by running "alsaconf" which will search for your sound card and setup the correct ALSA drivers to load. Well, hopefully that is what it will do.

erklaerbaer · 05-14-2007, 03:44 PM

~/.Xresources

Quote:

!xterm
XTerm*jumpScroll: on
XTerm*multiScroll: on
XTerm*ScrollBar: false
Xterm*ForeGround: grey
Xterm*Background: black
Xterm*CursorColor: red
XTerm*saveLines: 500
XTerm*sunFunctionKeys: on
XTerm*cursorColor: red
XTerm*FaceName:
XTerm*loginShell: true
XTerm*pointerColor: red

you are welcome

Nem · 05-14-2007, 03:45 PM

Oh for the sound try running alsaconf
to try setup the card.If you can't setup the card
you might be missing the right module. read this
http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=distro
Then if you do manage to setup
the card with alsaconf make sure you run alsamixer
and unmute and add volume.Then run alsactl store
as root after ajusting the volume with alsamixer.

Alien_Hominid · 05-14-2007, 03:45 PM

alsaconf
alsamixer (unmute sound)
alsactl store

killi · 05-14-2007, 03:45 PM

Was really looking for what pdw said about bash, that solved that issue

But for the sound alsaconfig didnt find any suitable sound driver, is there any other tool like this?
Or do i maybe need to recompile to get the module to load?

Killi

Alien_Hominid · 05-14-2007, 03:48 PM

Which kernel do you use?

I suggest to update alsa and recompile.

killi · 05-14-2007, 03:51 PM

Im using 2.6.18, couldnt get bootsplash to work on 21, so used 18.
Ill try to update alsa but i do think i have the newest version of it.

Killi

killi · 05-14-2007, 04:22 PM

Ive now tried to recompile and to install latest alsa drivers, but still this isnt working

Any other suggestions?

Killi

Alien_Hominid · 05-14-2007, 04:37 PM

try modprobe snd-intel8x0

killi · 05-15-2007, 02:59 AM

I couldnt locate that module for 2.6 but for 2.4 i found it, has it gotten a new name?

Alien_Hominid · 05-15-2007, 03:11 AM

It should be there.
Did you compile alsa as module?

killi · 05-15-2007, 03:15 AM

Oh do i have to compile as module?
that i havnt done....

Alien_Hominid · 05-15-2007, 03:21 AM

Modprobe command loads module into the kernel. Alsaconf most probably searches for module too, so you also don't get sound driver found automatically. There is no must to have it as module, but I don't know how to make it work as built-in.