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Hello, I have installed slackware 12. I have a creative labs audigy sound card. It is listed when I use LSPCI. but there is no sound coming from the speakers. I am running KDE as my graphical environment, but I don't get any sound. The sound card works fine under windows. I am a newb so any help will be greatly appreciated.

David

Did you run alsaconf?

Brian

Let me clarify, I have been doing IT work for years, I have taken 2 classes to get my MCSE but can't afford to finish. I have been working on/with computers since the early 1980's and have a large clientel base of customers doing their office networks. in other words, MSDOS or Winders I can do effortlessly. this is my first real venture into linux.

Thanks, David

OK is alsaconf just a command that needs to be ran in a terminal window? I seriously am green at linux but I learn fast.

David

Yes, it is. It will ask you a few questions and should then configure your sound card. You will need to run it as the root user (system admin). You change to the root user by entering "su" in the terminal window (often referred to here as cli) and then entering the root password when prompted.

Welcome to the world of linux. There are great resources for you to learn with, including this forum, the Slackbook (slackbook.org), READMES, documentation that comes with the programs, man pages, etc. Also check the sigs of some veteran posters like onebuck for more resources. You'll find that most newbie questions have already been answered. To try to search the forums before posting.

Brian

you might need to be a member of the audio group. I know I have to be on my machine. KDE pops up a message though saying that aRts cannot start because the device does not exist or you don't have permission - just add yourself to the audio group for that.

Then you will need to turn up the system volume and unmute a few channels. if your card is like mine (probably not) I only use two output channels, but you will figure it out soon enough.

Well I actually am tring slack on 2 different machines, my garage computer at home and my alienware laptop at work. The sound wasn't working on the alienware laptop either so I ran alsaconfig and voila it is working fine now. I have not had the oportunity to run alsaconfig at home but I will do so tonight.

I also have downloaded the slackbook and am reading over it because of a network issue on the laptop. The internet works fine at home, but it is sluggish on the laptop...but that will be another thread if I don't figure it out after a few days.

David

OK, Here I go with my non-knowledgable rant.

My creative labs Audigy 2 card I installed in the garage computer will not produce sound under slack, I don't know why. But there is a silver lining here, I pulled the Audigy2 out of the computer and turned on the on-board sound. I then ran alsaconf, it configured fine and is working like a champ. I normally like to use hardware based sound cards because of stresses most on-board sound cards put on the processor, but with slack I don't think the load is enough to matter.

BTW alsaconf did see the audigy2 but recognized it as an audigy, that may be the problem. The audigy2 would not work under KUBUNTU either. It does work with winderz though.

so in a nutshell, on-board sound is good. thanks to the nudge from Brian. I guess I will start working on the network issues on my laptop now.

Thanks again.

it could have been that you actually needed to set the SB card to 'MM' (MUTE) not '00' in alsaconf to get sound (by toggling the 'M' key), it seems to be a qirk with some audigy cards, mine included.

I might try that if the on-board sound gives me any troubles. in my 5 minutes of testing it seems to be working fine. With it being a computer put in the garage for playing with, Having perfect sound isn't all that important.

David

I'm having the same problem. How to I change the System Board sound to mute? All I can do is set the headphones to mute using the m key. Is there a way to just set the Audigy to the default card? Thanks

One way would be to blacklist the module for the on-board sound.

Brian

How would I do that? I know I got to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist but I'm not sure what to add to the file. Thank you

I went into CMOS and disabled the on-board sound, when I did that alsoconfig did not see the on-board sound, so the audigy was my default because it was the only one listed. I may play with it somemore when I get the time. But the on-board sound seems to be working fine after 2 days so I will probably forgo the audigy for now.

David

Use lsmod to see the name of the module that loads for your on-board sound card and then add a line "blacklist module_name" to the blacklist file.

Brian