Ok, 2 questions,

1. How to configure my sound card

I added "/sbin/modprobe ac97" to the rc.sndconfig and rc.snddevice files.

I have a VIA ac'97 sound card


2. Can you install slackware .tgz packages on evilentity?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1) this is a too broad question......
alsa or oss ?
kernel 2.4 or 2.6 ?
what have you tried ?
whats wrong ?
error messages ?

2) nope.

Sorry if I wasn't specific enough,

It's 2.4,

I don't know what oss is... ?

The docs say to add /sbin/modprobe "your soundcard here" (selected from a group of .o libraries. My card is a via ac'97 so I added ac97)
to the file /etc/rc.d/rc.sndconfig or /etc/rc.d/rc.snddevice

I tried installing alsa but it didn't work...
I've tried most of the libraries in the sound drivers directory.

Do I need to get my own sound driver from the internet?

There are no error messages, There's just no sound.

Thanks in advance..

well I used my ac97 awhile ago in linux and I rember it's not called ac97, I can't remember what snd- somthing, google on configure ac97 in linux or something like that..
anyway where it stands type your coundcard here you shuld not tyoe ac97 if it can be to any help..

ac97 is a codec on the sound card... my card has one, but ut is not the driver...

with sound..there are 2 driver sets... OSS (open sound system) which is old (used) on 2.4 kernels. New 2.6 kernels (and some patched old 2.4 ones) use ALSA (advanced linux sound architechture)

what do you mean alsa doesnt work ? you seem to by using alsa's config files.

here's how to install sound....

download alsa-driver ,, alsa-lib and alsa-utils from alsa's sourceforge site..

install in this order...

alsa-driver ./configure --help
(read it, there in an option somwhere about anabling backwards compatability with oss.. find out what its called and use it...

./configure --oss-pcm (or whatever its called)
make && make install
./snddevices

then install alsa-lib (the usual configure make make install way

and the same again for alsa-utils.

now use the program alsaconf to auto-detect your card.

use alsamixer and aumix to un-mute all the channels

use alsactl store to save your volume settings.

then add 'alsa restore' to your boot scripts somwhere.

Thanks a lot, I installed ALSA properly this time, with the oss option and it works great.