Hi team

I installed slackware 10 & I cant get the sound to work
this is getting very frustrating I hurt my fist badly by punching my screen ( gotta love crts :P )
anyway...

I ran alsaconf , my card is detected as an intel8x0 which is fine since i have a Nforce APU

If i run alsamixer , all I get is my tvcard

if I load up KDE I get that error :
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be openend for playback (No such device)
The sound driver will continue, using the null output device

I tryed to re-install alsa, same thing
I followed 2-3 how-to i found on the internet ) & of course i tryed the default settings made by the slackware installation ...
I installed the nvidia nforce drivers for linux, but everything failed so far

here is my /etc/modules.conf :

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

I am just running out of ideas ( & patience! )
I works fine under slack9.1 & WinXP
Any suggestion ?

The only way I have ever been able to get mine to work is by recompiling the kernel, and only including support for my sound card, and compiling it directly into the kernel, and not as a module. This probobly isn't the best solution, and I'm sure theres a way to get it to work, but the first thing I always do after a fresh install is recompile my kernel, so it's never been that big of a deal to me.

......... and thats exactly what i am trying right now
ill do an update once im done ( if i dont crash my box ... thats my first kernel compile ever )

Hi,
Can you try to modprobe snd-intel8x0 to see if this works. Also can you give the output of lspci

Could be that your TV card is stealing the IRQ that your soundcard needs. I had the same problem with alsa except my LPT1 port on my laptop was stealing IRQ7, so I just disabled my LPT1 in my BIOS and problem solved.

Maybe you could try taking the TV Card out and seeing if your soundcard shows up, at least then you know what the problem is. Wish I could help more but I don't know how to resolve IRQ conflicts in linux. Anyone else??

Modprobe didnt change anythin

here is the result of lspci
( can you explain the purpose of this command btw )
thanks

Mds00 : ill try to take off my tvtuner once i am done w/ the recompile

00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1
)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Contr oler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Co ntroller (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
01:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture ( rev 02)
01:0a.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02 )
01:0b.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller (rev 02)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3C920B-EMB Integrated Fast Etherne t Controller (rev 40)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3 Ti 200] (re v a3)

lspci justs tells us if the kernel is recognising your hardware. What happened when you did the modprobe. Also now you have done that, the output of lsmod will tell you if the sound card module is loaded or not.

when i did the modprobe, nothing hapenned , no error or any msg whatsoever

& this is what lsmod tells me:
root@blublux2:~# lsmod | grep snd-intel
snd-intel8x0 18924 0
snd-ac97-codec 49500 0 [snd-intel8x0]
gameport 1420 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mpu401-uart 3200 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm 56072 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-bt87x]
snd-page-alloc 6328 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-bt87x snd-pcm]
snd 30852 0 [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]


it still doesnt work though...
im still on 2.4 my compile didnt work , cant mount my / (probably because of my SATA controller.....im workign on it right now
im not sure if switching to 2.6.x will be of any help...)

Try adding this to modules.conf

options snd-intel8x0 index=0
options snd-bt87x index=1

Errrrmmmm....doesn't your lspci output show that you have an audio controller made by VIA?

00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)

Try an ALSA VIA module :-)

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...module=via82xx

or have I lost the plot?

Did you unmute the sound? As I recall alsa starts with the sound muted. You have to use alsamixer to set the levels. Then use alsctl to save the settings for next time with: alsactl save. You can test your sound card from the command line with aplay. Just do: aplay /usr/share/sounds/phone.wav to hear the phone ring.

I think your sound has been working the whole time. But the volume was turned all the way down.

insyte : i tried & it didnt change anything


sound is not mute i get an error when i stattup kde & the sound goes to /dev/null
alsamixer only shows my tvtuner


otchie1 : this driver is ac97 based but the proper driver for it is intel8x0

oh man im so desperate

Did you try a recompile yet?

Well, lspci output doesn't lie... what makes you so sure that your card is an intel8x0?

It would not hurt to just modprobe the via82cxx audio drivers anyway, won't it? And if you tried it, you might even be suprised to find out that it works.

I had exactly the same problem when I installed slackware 10 on my laptop. However it worked perfectly with slackware 9.1. I've tired many ways to fixed it, then I found the one that works for me. Turn of alsa and use original oss support.

Alsa what a jerk!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's causing so much problem since it was published. It's the main reason I switched back to windows.