Slackware 10 Nforce2 Sound alsamixer shows tv card

jimdaworm · 06-28-2004, 04:15 AM

Hey guys I see that quite a few people seem to be having problems with Slackware 10 and alsa. My particular problem is that I don´t have sound. I tried alsaconf and it finds my nForce2 sound and automatically sets it up.

When I use alsamixer ... it only comes up with the volume controls for my tv capture card??? Does anyone have any idea how I can make alsamixer see my nForce2 onboard sound instead??

Thanks
Adam

Quote:

bash-2.05b$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
ppp_deflate 4864 0
zlib_deflate 21144 1 ppp_deflate
bsd_comp 5312 0
ppp_async 9664 1
ppp_generic 21652 7 ppp_deflate,bsd_comp,ppp_async
slhc 6720 1 ppp_generic
snd_pcm_oss 48804 0
snd_mixer_oss 17344 3 snd_pcm_oss
uhci_hcd 28368 0
ohci_hcd 16900 0
ehci_hcd 24516 0
snd_intel8x0 29444 2
snd_ac97_codec 61444 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 6144 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 20128 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 6536 1 snd_rawmidi
tuner 17292 0
bttv 143756 0
video_buf 16516 1 bttv
i2c_algo_bit 8904 1 bttv
v4l2_common 4928 1 bttv
btcx_risc 3848 1 bttv
i2c_core 18756 3 tuner,bttv,i2c_algo_bit
videodev 7168 1 bttv
snd_bt87x 11204 2
snd_pcm 84360 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_bt87x
snd_timer 20996 1 snd_pcm
snd 44772 14 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd _bt87x,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 8964 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_bt87x,snd_pcm
ide_scsi 13956 0
fglrx 212708 7
nvidia_agp 5788 1
agpgart 27624 2 nvidia_agp
rtc 10296 0
bash-2.05b$

Quote:

bash-2.05b$ cat modules.conf
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.5 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

bash-2.05b$

w3edr5t · 06-28-2004, 05:15 AM

Did you try the alsamixer -c option

Code:

-c <card number or idenfication>  
Select the soundcard to use, if you have more than one. 
Cards are numbered from 0 (the default).

Try alsamixer -c 1

jimdaworm · 06-28-2004, 06:27 AM

Hey w3edr5t thanks for the tip! What I found was confusing things anyways was compiling that I depeciated sound modules along with the alsa ones so I removed them and also removed the module for my tvcard as I don´t use its volume control (Just have cable from the tvcard to my normal sound card) I kind of did all this just to keep things simple!!

Thanks again for your tip you have shown me somthing I didn´t know you could do with alsa

SBing · 06-28-2004, 06:38 AM

lol, I got confused on exactly the same point but luckily I don't use my radio nor the sound from the sound card - it's a mono input so I just ignore it and plug the TV sound directly into line in. So I just didn't modprobe that side of things and alsamixer defaulted to my sound card...bit of a roundabout way of doing it though!

Steve

w3edr5t · 06-28-2004, 07:07 AM

Good that it works for you now jimdaworm

I discovered it when alsa was reporting "No mixer elems found".
The cause was a modem which alsa registered as the first sound device(device 0).
When using "alsamixer -c 1" it worked well for me.

regards
Ter

jbstew32 · 06-28-2004, 11:31 AM

i had the same exact problem with my sound and tv tuner. I ended up recompiling the kernel to exclude the tv tuner sound support, since i have the little loop cable into the sound card.

jimdaworm · 06-29-2004, 06:34 AM

Good to hear you have all sorted it out too! I am on my way to having a working computer again with everything I need! (Just installed unreal tournament). I was a little confused for a while about xfree...!

Quick question... this might sound stupid... but where do I find the source for the 2.6.7 kernel and on which one of the cds??

w3edr5t · 06-29-2004, 08:47 AM

2.6.7 is on cd2.

The path should be:
/testing/packages/linux-2.6.7/kernel-source-2.6.7-noarch-1.tgz.asc

Regards
Ter

jimdaworm · 06-29-2004, 06:51 PM

Thanks for the info w3edr5t