Hi All,

I was wondering if someone could help me with the sound on my laptop. It is a Toshiba 1415-s173. When I configured alsa I get no sound. I have Slackware 10.0 running just fine on my desktop but for some reason I can't seem to get the sound working on this laptop. I don't want to be forced to use another distro on my laptop as I love Slackware but I need sound. Thanks for any responses!

Greg

P.S. Just thought I would add that the soundcard is a YAMAHA AC-XG Audio Device. Maybe someone has a laptop with one of these.

Did you run alsaconf as root?

You might find some help here.

http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/toshiba.html

Yeah...I ran alsaconf as root. When I try and run alsamixer I get a message saying: No mixer elems found.
Other distros seem to work just fine. Everything looks good when I run alsaconf so I am not sure what exactly the problem is. I looked online to try and find someone who had installed Slackware on a similar computer but couldn't find any. That is why I came here. Thanks for any help.

Greg

what does /sbin/lspci show? also /sbin/lsmod

Hi datadriven...

/sbin/lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go] (rev a3)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42)
02:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
02:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)

/sbin/lsmod:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss 37736 0
snd-mixer-oss 12504 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
keybdev 2052 0 (unused)
mousedev 4212 1
hid 21220 0 (unused)
usbmouse 2040 0 (unused)
input 3200 0 [keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse]
uhci 24444 0 (unused)
usbcore 59308 1 [hid usbmouse uhci]
snd-intel8x0 18924 1
gameport 1420 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mpu401-uart 3200 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 12740 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3888 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd-intel8x0m 9544 2
snd-pcm 56072 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-intel8x0m]
snd-timer 13604 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-page-alloc 6328 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-intel8x0m snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 49500 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-intel8x0m]
snd 30852 3 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-intel8x0m snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore 3396 7 [snd]
eepro100 19252 1
mii 2272 0 [eepro100]
ds 6548 2
yenta_socket 10336 2
pcmcia_core 39972 0 [ds yenta_socket]
ntfs 51424 1 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 9328

this module was the one giving me problems on my toshiba, try adding it to /etc/hotplug/blacklist and reboot aparently it's the modem driver but for some reason it cause troubles with the sound... it woked for me

sorry I forgot to mention what module upsss...it was this

snd-intel8x0m

hope it helps.

Same here with the intel-8x0m... I always just reinstall the driver from source and configure it for just my soundcard...

./configure --with-cards=intel8x0

This seems to remove the m modules... you may have to modprobe snd-pcm-oss after doing this though.

Thanks lupin_the_3rd and jdvelasquezs,

I really appreciate your feedback. I will try your ideas. I ended up installing Fedora on my laptop after I posted this email but I am looking forward to going back to Slack. Fedora is a good distro but there is nothing quite like Slackware. Thanks again for taking the time to share your ideas.

I was using Slack10 with 2.4 stock kernel...

(1) I had to add snd_intel8x0m the the /etc/hotplug/blacklist...
(2) Add to restart (cannot remove the module without restarting)
(3) Did alsaconf from root to reconfigure alsa with good audio setting...
(4) Audio was fine... That worked very well...

Now that i've installed kernel 2.6.7 (from Slack10 install CDs), the /etc/hotplug/blacklist doesn't seem to affect the hotplug script at startup (or does the 2.6.7 kernel really work with hotplug???)... The module is always loaded at boot...

I had to rename the kernel module snd-intel8x0m.ko (in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.7/kernel/sound/pci) to snd-intel8x0m.ko.bak... Which prevent the kernel to load the module...

Is there someone who knows why this BLACKLIST file doesn't work anymore on 2.6.7 kernel?

Regards,