Hello there, Ok here is the deal I have sound working but I dont feel like it is really installed right. I have downloaded alsa sound... there latest and I thought I worked it into my kernwl or something like that but I also have alsa installed via pkgtool. I would like to do it from scratch, no alsa at all on my box then get it from either swaret or compile my own. The reason is I cant seem to get recording sessions to work with apps like sound record, xowave, audocity and so on.
What do you all know to be the best way to get sound to work correctly.
Thanks,
Mark

First uninstall all alsa packages from pkgtool. Next download and install checkinstall from here.

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

After that download the alsa packages from here.

http://www.alsa-project.org/

Instead of installing from source, after running

./configure

and

make

run

checkinstall

this should make the file into a "slack package" which you can install via installpkg packagename, and remove via pkgtool. Do this for the drivers, the libs, utilities, tools, and you may need the oss emulation. Done this way if something goes awry, it's easy to uninstall and start from scratch. Hope that helps.
good luck.

sounds like a plan thanks and I will let you know how it goes.

Ok I am slow here. I installed checkinstall and downloaded alsa 1.0.7
driver,lib and utl.
Now do you want me to do in this order:
/configure
and
make
run
checkinstall
or am I missing something here and how do I run checkinstall? sorry about the lame question
I have alsa drivers unpacked so I guess I am trying to confirm the next step

What is the command to uninstall all the alsa packages?
"removepkg alsa" ????

I have got all the old alsa stuff out and reinstalled alsa via swaret and recompiled my kernel 2.6.0. sound is here but I cant seem to record sound thru my line-in I have the alsamixer set to capture and the level is up. When I start Sound Recorder in dropline gnome I get the messege:
Device "/dev/dsp" does not exist
That is my problem at this time.
And when I use XOwave I get a messege that says "no connection to audio driver"

What channels do you have available from alsamixer? What devices do exist? What card is this?
good luck.

Peacedog,
one sec here I have decided to do a fresh install with slack 9.1 and i just finished with a swaret update to slack 10.0. and now I am doing a quick recompile to my kernel 2.4.22.
Also I have deleted my old alsa and redownloaded from swaret also, Once I reboot I will see if I have sound

Well you've got quite a bit going on, good luck.