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AC 97 Integrated Audio

Hey all, i recently installed Slackware Linux (10.0) on my computer, everything works great, except 1 thing: the audio.
I got a AC 97 sound card (integrated, my MoBo is an MSI KM4M), i did everything to get it to work, and no luck.
So please, if you know how to get it to work, it will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

-Caluka

I don't know how Slack does sound configuration. But I'm guessing you need the via82xx kernel module. Is this getting loaded? Check output of 'lsmod'.

ok, heres the output:

Code:

n_hdlc                  6304  1

ppp_synctty            5856  1

ppp_async              7392  0 (unused)

ppp_generic            19492  3 [ppp_synctty ppp_async]

slhc                    4976  0 [ppp_generic]

snd-pcm-oss            37736  0 (unused)

snd-mixer-oss          12504  0 [snd-pcm-oss]

uhci                  24444  0 (unused)

ehci-hcd              17580  0 (unused)

usbcore                59308  1 [uhci ehci-hcd]

snd-via82xx            13124  0

gameport                1420  0 [snd-via82xx]

snd-pcm                56072  0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx]

snd-timer              13604  0 [snd-pcm]

snd-ac97-codec        49500  0 [snd-via82xx]

snd-page-alloc          6328  0 [snd-via82xx snd-pcm]

snd-mpu401-uart        3200  0 [snd-via82xx]

snd-rawmidi            12740  0 [snd-mpu401-uart]

snd-seq-device          3888  0 [snd-rawmidi]

snd                    30852  0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx                            snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-d                            evice]

soundcore              3396  4 [snd]

via-rhine              12464  1

mii                    2272  0 [via-rhine]

crc32                  2880  0 [via-rhine]

pcmcia_core            39972  0

ntfs                  51424  1 (autoclean)

ide-scsi                9328  0

aparently via 82xx is loaded... but i get no sound, please help
:confused: :confused: :cry:

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Hi,
Have you got ALSA installed? Because your sound card is quite common and works well
in Linux. You have to have installed alsa-base and alsa-utils.
Once installed, run 'alsaconf', as root.
Once your card is detected, and you have the 'enjoy' message, finish with :
'alsactl store', to save your settings and not have to do that at each reboot.

cheers

And of course start up alsamixer in a terminal window and check that at least Master and PCM are unmuted and turned up.

crap... i installed ALSA lib-drivers and utilsconfigured and all, and still no sound... i dont know what else can i do
any help??? please???

:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

YES, FINALLY, THANKS YOU VERY MUCH
thanks to all that helped, i finally got it working

would you like to tell us what you did to get it working?

No idea why it didnt work, but i reinstalled Slackware, and got it working (installed slack, and inmeatly ALSA), and well, now it works perfectly, lol

Wanna say thank you too, used this thread to get my ac'97 working too :D