slackware 13 no sound

mrclisdue · 11-01-2009, 11:21 AM

Your lspci reports a second audio device:

01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV635 Audio device [Radeon HD 3600 Series]

Have you attempted to configure this?

Have you verified that your sound works, at all? With a live cd, perhaps - and if so, then how is it configured?

That's all I got.

cheers,

foodown · 11-01-2009, 12:05 PM

Try

Code:

options snd-hda-intel model=dell

Also, this device . . .
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV635 Audio device [Radeon HD 3600 Series]
. . . What is it?

smoooth103 · 11-01-2009, 07:26 PM

Try booting to runlevel 3. I.e. edit /etc/inittab and change from default runlevel from 4 to 3. Then use "startx" -- don't start kdm

I had the same issues you and tried many of the solutions mentioned above -- this was the only thing that I could do to get it to work.

leptom · 11-02-2009, 02:46 AM

Try to upgrade alsa. I wrote a script to do it.
You need run it as root and had src2pkg (to generate the installed packages).

My sound card wasn't supported completely(only headphone) in alsa version that has slackware 13. Upgrading to the latest and configuring it solved the problem

Good lucky!

Script: http://gist.github.com/219198

foodown · 11-03-2009, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smoooth103

Try booting to runlevel 3. I.e. edit /etc/inittab and change from default runlevel from 4 to 3. Then use "startx" -- don't start kdm

I had the same issues you and tried many of the solutions mentioned above -- this was the only thing that I could do to get it to work.

You can solve that problem by adding your user to the audio group.

Go ahead and add your user to plugdev, video, and cdrom groups, too.

smoooth103 · 11-04-2009, 05:14 PM

Foodown> Ha! You're exactly right. I normally add those groups when I adduser but missed them somehow -- twice. Thanks! How noobish of me.

admas · 11-06-2009, 09:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrclisdue

Your lspci reports a second audio device:

01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV635 Audio device [Radeon HD 3600 Series]

Have you attempted to configure this?

Have you verified that your sound works, at all? With a live cd, perhaps - and if so, then how is it configured?

That's all I got.

cheers,

I did attempt to configure this with no results. From the googling I did,
it appears to be the sound component of my graphics card.

admas · 11-06-2009, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by foodown

You can solve that problem by adding your user to the audio group.

Go ahead and add your user to plugdev, video, and cdrom groups, too.

My normal user is in all the groups mentioned.

admas · 11-06-2009, 09:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smoooth103

Try booting to runlevel 3. I.e. edit /etc/inittab and change from default runlevel from 4 to 3. Then use "startx" -- don't start kdm

I had the same issues you and tried many of the solutions mentioned above -- this was the only thing that I could do to get it to work.

I never changed the default, so I was already in runlevel 3.

admas · 11-06-2009, 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leptom

Try to upgrade alsa. I wrote a script to do it.
You need run it as root and had src2pkg (to generate the installed packages).

My sound card wasn't supported completely(only headphone) in alsa version that has slackware 13. Upgrading to the latest and configuring it solved the problem

Good lucky!

Script: http://gist.github.com/219198

I will try upgrading alsa when I get a bit more free time ( a have a Physics test, Discrete Math test, and a Japanese test next week ). I let you know if it worked. Thanks for the suggestion.

Vincent_Vega · 11-30-2009, 08:51 PM

I'm having a similar problem with the same sound device, drivers, etc. However, I have sound from my headphones. Any idea why I can't get sound from the speakers? I have a HP HDX laptop.

~sHyLoCk~ · 11-30-2009, 09:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vincent_Vega

I'm having a similar problem with the same sound device, drivers, etc. However, I have sound from my headphones. Any idea why I can't get sound from the speakers? I have a HP HDX laptop.

Did you check kmix / alsamixer?

Vincent_Vega · 11-30-2009, 09:45 PM

Yes, I did check alsamixer. It's the same for 'root' too, so I don't think it's a permissions problem.

~sHyLoCk~ · 11-30-2009, 11:52 PM

Code:

 lsmod | grep snd

Vincent_Vega · 12-01-2009, 06:58 AM

Here is the output of lsmod | grep snd:

Quote:

snd_hda_codec_idt 56644 1
snd_hda_intel 26976 5
snd_hda_codec 69372 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 7008 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 69152 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 19204 2 snd_pcm
snd 52804 14 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 5824 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 8036 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm