Ok, well story goes I got slack 9.1 running happy. I have a turtle beach montego sound card.

Now the problem is. I cant get any sound.
The common error can't open /dev/sound/mixer
Im using the default kernel that comes with 9.1

Now, I HAVE tryed the Aureal driver's. And that one didnt work, so now I come here. asking for your help... =P

Do you know what driver or anything that has support for a turtle beach montego? Or am I Just screwed?



Woah, I logged into root. and poked around /dev/ there IS NO SOUND folder!!!! Eeep!

And im also useing Dropline gnome. But its been the same error each time since slack 9.0


Another update! mixer IS in my dev directory, yet there is no sound one....... O_O

Did you try running alsaconf as root? Alsa comes standard with Slackware now, but you need to run alsaconf first to get everything set up, it should probe for sound cards and load the appropriate modules, then you just need to run amixer or similar to change the mixer levels to unmute things. Or did alsaconf not find your soundcard?

Ya I tryed Running that. Nothing, No PNP or PCI card found

O_o.....

So.... am I lookin pretty screwd? lol.

when u installed the aureal drivers, did u modprobe the module?

n3g. Exacty whatdo I have to do?

i don't know anything about aureal cards, but what u should have done is unpacked whatever package is for the driver, then went into the directory and read the install/readme file to find some good install info

if not, the usual way to install things is to go into terminal and do ./configure, make, and then make install in the driver directory

then the install/readme file should tell u the name of the module, so do modprobe modulename

then all should be well

*also, alsa should support your card, try running it again by doing su - (and then enter password for root) and typing alsaconf
tell us exactly what it says if there are errors

Ok. when running alsaconf. These are the exact errors i get

No supported PnP or PCI card found.

Would you like to probe legacy ISA sound cards/chips?

And I go No. O_o

I'm not sure about your problem but if you'd like help recompiling alsa for your computer I can give you fairly detailed instructions, I've gotten my Montego 2 working under slackware 9.

Hrm. I have a MONTEGO 1. But i dunno.. It could work.. it might not... its worth a shot..

Ok here goes.
First download the alsa library, utils, tools, and OSS compat library from www.alsa-project.org, you should not download the alsa driver from that site because the vortex line of chipsets is not supported there, instead down load the Alsa drivers from the open vortex cvs (http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=openvortex), check out module "alsa".

Next change to the directory where you downloaded the drivers, type compile and install as you would any other program, I do no think there is any need to add switches to ./configure for your card, but the one I used for my Montego 2 is --with-sequencer=yes.

When the driver is done compiling run "snddevices" in the alsa folder to setup the sound devices under /dev

Next compile and install everything else (utils, tools, OSS library, Alsa Library

Before you load the modules for your sound card u need to edit /etc/modules.conf and add:

alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
alias snd-card-0 snd-au8810
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
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

Next you can use modprobe snd-au8810.
To check that modules are all loaded run lsmod, the output should be similar to mine.

snd-pcm-oss 37348 0 (autoclean)
appletalk 21508 1 (autoclean)
ipx 17316 1 (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss 11992 2 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-au8830 40632 5 (autoclean)
gameport 1452 0 (autoclean) [snd-au8830]
snd-pcm 55968 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-au8830]
snd-timer 13284 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc 6004 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 3136 0 (autoclean) [snd-au8830]
snd-rawmidi 12480 0 (autoclean) [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3904 0 (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 37240 0 (autoclean) [snd-au8830]
snd 27460 2 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-au8830 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore 3332 6 (autoclean) [snd]
visor 9064 0 (unused)
usbserial 18876 0 [visor]
usb-uhci 22220 0 (unused)
usbcore 58144 0 [visor usbserial usb-uhci]
pcmcia_core 38112 0
ide-scsi 8048 0
tulip 41248 1

(it should have the snd-* modules and soundcore loaded)

Last thing you need to do is to unmute all of your channels
Do this by using alsamixer and pressing m to unmute and using the arrow keys to adjust volume, store the volume configuration by typing alsactrl store 0. You can recall this configuration by adding alsactrl restore 0 to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
* the above can be done by using kmix in kde.

That should do it, hope his helps, and come back and yell at me if it doesnt

Kris

I relized I forgot to mention that you need the kernel sources installed, if they are not you can get them from the slackware package browser, they are about 30 megs in size and must be installed for Alsa to compile.

Kris

im in the process of just recompiling my kernel because thats something I need to do. So Ill get htat done. And then test that out.

Thx For info!