Slackware 10 Nforce2 Sound alsamixer shows tv card
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Slackware 10 Nforce2 Sound alsamixer shows tv card
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 donīt 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??
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. ---
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 donīt 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 didnīt know you could do with alsa
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!
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.
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.
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??
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