slackware sound problems
 

well when i try and play a song in xmms the song just freezes and doesnt play at all it just stays at 0 seconds

please help

Can you hear anything else?

are you using gnome ?
 

it happend to me the same thing when running gnome , i tried it on KDE and it worked ok .

Take a look at this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...lackware+sound

no aussie
 

i can hear nothing out of it... and its not my speakers cus its fine on windows so.... i dunno what it can be ive tryed quite abit of stuff any other suggiestions?

and i always use kde

Ok cerberus, tell me what sort of sound card you have.

soniq 5330 i think

Do "lspci" and post the part about your sound controller for me to look at, it should be something like this,
bash-2.05$ su
Password:
bash-2.05# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0305 (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 8305
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 16)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 16)
00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 (rev b2)
bash-2.05#
The bold line is the one I'm interested in.

sorry i was so late fixed my connection
 

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1a30 (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1a31 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 244e (rev 12)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2440 (rev 12)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 244b (rev 12)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2442 (rev 12)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2443 (rev 12)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2444 (rev 12)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Vanta [NV6] (rev 15)
02:01.0 Communication controller: CONEXANT: Unknown device 1066 (rev 08)
02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10)
02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 03)

Ok, you need to do "modprobe es1371" as root to load the module for your sound card. You can check it loaded with "lsmod", once that's done you should have sound but if not then check the permissions on /dev/dsp*, /dev/mixer* and /dev/sequencer*. To have the es1371 module load at boot, uncomment the line (remove the #) /sbin/modprobe es1371 in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.

what am i suppost to check for in /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer?
 

????

nevermind
 

the permissions seam to be right i have a ensoniq ES1371 i think its something with the card not being capatible with slackware

the common devices you need to look for are:

dsp
dsp1
mixer
mixer1
audio
audio1
sequencer
sequencer2
midi00-03

they all have the same permissions


read write

user x x

group x x

Re: nevermind
 

I have the same card and it works fine. Next thing to do is check the volume level, by default it's always set too low.

hmm ok its not the volume level its the songs just not playing...
sooo i dunno whats wrong with it.... next what am i suppost to do?

Check the options in xmms and make sure it's looking at the correct drive.

its setup right
 

when u installed slackware did you have any problems with sound?

No, all I had to do was load the module, adjust the permissions and volume and set the module to load at boot by un-commenting the correct line in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.

well
 

i guess ill wait til 8.1 comes out im getting tired of trying to fix it

Can you hear any others sound? Maybe the trouble is around xmms?

cerberus, do "dmesg" to display the boot message and scroll through looking for anything that mentions the sound/multimedia controller and post them here.

that had nothing about audio just stuff about syn packets and my ppp0 connection and there is no sound at all even my cd player u cant here sound when i play a CD

Can you hear any sounds at all? and do you have an audio cable from the cdrom to the sound card?

well i have this machine partitioned and in windows XP its perfectly fine but for slackware no sound at all nothing zip...

might this be the problem
insmod sound
Using /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/sound.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/sound.o.gz: unresolved symbol sound_preinit_lowlevel_dr
ivers
/lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/sound.o.gz: unresolved symbol sound_unload_lowlevel_dri
vers
/lib/modules/2.2.19/misc/sound.o.gz: unresolved symbol

Bingo. What kernel version are you using? you can check with "uname -a"

no need to 2.2.19 and i guess it has a add on of 2.4.5 but it mainly runs off 2.2.19 so 2.2.19

Ok, try doing "depmod -ae" and then try insmod again, if that dosn't work you might need to recompile your kernel.

nope it didnt work insmod sound said the exact same thing blah... anything else i can try other than recompiling my kernel?

You can try doing "make modules && make modules_install" in the 2.2.19 kernel source but that could make things worse. I'd recomend getting the latest 2.2.x series kernel source and update.

ok thanxs for all your help man i might need some help recompiling the kernel so ill post it tomorrow or whatever k... i goto go to bed nite man

Ok. Good luck with it.