sound issues--Slack 10.1
 

Ok here is the issue. I have a Intel 815e chipset and I cannot get the audio to work. I have gone into alsamixer and adjusted the volume up and tested it with both workbone and amp. The software seems to be doing the job with no errors but I get no sound. I have several snd related modules loaded when I list lsmod. I know it's something stupid because in alsamixer I have Item: Mixer [off] listed but I as of yet have no idea how to turn it on.

suggestions?

Have you actually run alsaconf as root yet?

Other than that get yourself over to alsa's website.

I would get rid of any sound modules and start over, getting alsa to make the modules....

thanks..that did it ..scared the shit out of me to I had the speakers cranked all the way up

lol

That's cool. I bet you jumped.

Glad to be of service

yeah it was pretty funny..It was a pretty vile Ice Cube track(it was small enough to fit on a floppy) and I'm at work..I got some funny looks thats for sure

another question if you have the time...I've no problem with audio at prompt and from within Gnome but for some reason every time I try to enable the volume control I receive the error "sorry , no mixer elements and/or devices found" . This is as a normal user ...I cannot get Nautilus to run if I run X as root(I've heard this is a normal issue and I have no real concern ...I do not plan to run X as root after I get all the issues ironed out)

any ideas?

djjosephk:

I remember doing a chmod nnn /dev/dsp in an older release of Slack...

Just remembered it while reading your post. I'm having the same problem as you do with my newly-installed Slack 10.1 right now -- I can play WAV files from the shell, but not from GNOME.

I'll try it later and let you know what happens. :)

as I said ..I can listen to cds, mp3s and wavs in both console and Gnome but I cannot get the master volume control to run. I find it to be reall strange