Sound trouble with Slack 12

rippler2k3 · 09-27-2007, 01:25 AM

Hi there. I'm having trouble getting my sound to work on Slackware 12. It's a gateway laptop and the sound is onboard AC97 audio. I went through the alsaconf program and everything seemed to work just fine. When I try to play music in Amarok I can even see the analyzers moving but no sound. I checked alsamixer and the volume is turned up and unmuted. Thanks for the help!

Peacedog · 09-27-2007, 06:18 PM

Hi rippler2k3, Welcome to lq. Do you have sound in any other applications? Have you run alsamixer to unmute your sound? If so please issue the following commands and post the output here.

Code:

/sbin/lspci -v | grep audio
/sbin/lsmod | grep snd
cat /proc/asound/cards
cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat

We're looking for an alsa emulation line in that last command.
Good luck. ;-)

rippler2k3 · 09-27-2007, 08:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peacedog

Hi rippler2k3, Welcome to lq. Do you have sound in any other applications? Have you run alsamixer to unmute your sound? If so please issue the following commands and post the output here.

Code:

/sbin/lspci -v | grep audio
/sbin/lsmod | grep snd
cat /proc/asound/cards
cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat

We're looking for an alsa emulation line in that last command.
Good luck. ;-)

00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio
Controller (rev 02)
snd_seq_dummy 6788 0
snd_seq_oss 32896 0
snd_seq_midi_event 10112 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50640 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10508 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 42784 0
snd_mixer_oss 18048 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0 32412 0
snd_atiixp 19340 2
snd_ac97_codec 98980 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_atiixp
ac97_bus 6016 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 72068 5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_co
dec
snd_timer 22532 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 47204 12 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss
,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9824 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 11528 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_atiixp,snd_pcm
0 [IXP ]: ATIIXP - ATI IXP
ATI IXP rev 2 with unknown codec at 0xc0503400, irq 18
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.14rc3 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux lt1 2.6.21.5-smp #2 SMP Tue Jun 19 14:58:11 CDT 2007 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
ATI IXP rev 2 with unknown codec at 0xc0503400, irq 18

Audio devices:
0: ATI IXP AC97 (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: Conexant id 30

I suspect that Synth/Midi config stuff might have something to do with it?

Peacedog · 09-28-2007, 07:27 AM

Are you a member of the audio group? What are the permissions on /dev/snd?
Good luck. ;-)