configuring sound on two laptops
i've recently installed slackware 7.0 on my thinkpad 560 and my sister's NEC versa 2405cd. both are 100mhz, my thinkpad has 40mb of ram to my sister's 24. but i cant figure out how to configure the sound on either of them, can someone help me?
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I'm using Slackware 9.1 but since you're on the 0 replies list, I'll give it a go.
First, as root, issue bash-2.05b# lspci which will give you output like this Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 02) Then see if you have a file /etc/rc.d/rc.modules. I'm hoping one of these hackers who've used Slack longer will post and help, but if not, we'll get it done. Btw - why are you using a Slack version that old? |
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I still don't understand why you're running Slack 7.0 when you've got 9.1 - I've removed Windoze from 2 friends laptops and have installed Slack 9.1 on one, and am getting ready to do so on the other. The second is a 266Mhz box with 64MB of ram and a 4GB hard drive, so it will be a minimum install.
Anyway, do you know how to configure sound on Slack 9.1? That's all I've ever done it on, so my Slack 7.0 help would be a guess. If you can do it on 9.1 you know as much as I know. The purpose of "lspci" is to find out what the soundchip in the lappy is, so that you can get your modules. I believe that Slack 7.0 used OSS and not ALSA, and would first look at the kernel config file and /etc/rc.d/rc.modules if you've got that file. It would probably be easier to configure sound for that distro with what you've got, cause I would imagine that if you try to use today's ALSA driver, libraries, and utilites with a Slack that old, you'll probably have dependency problems. |
here's what i got when i ran lspci on my IBM... i will post my sisters later
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430MX - 82437MX MTSC [430MX PCIset - 8243m Controler (MTSC) and 82438MX Mobile Data Path (MT (rev 02) Quote:
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Okay, I'm with you. But please explain to me why (or how) you can get a nice GUI with 7.0 and not with 9.1? This is not a loaded question - I have an older laptop sitting on my workbench right now with a freshly low-level formatted hard drive, just waiting for a shiny new GNU/Linux system. ;-)
Btw - I get a 404 on both links in your sig. May just be me... For your sound - ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...TO/Sound-HOWTO - it's probably on the Slackware 7.0 CD you made also. |
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How's your sound issue? Does that Sound-HOWTO in 7.0 have the info you need? The lappy I'm installing 9.1 on at the moment has a 266 MHz AMD-K6 MMX with 512 KB L2 Cache and 64 MB SyncDRAM. All I need to setup for her is Firefox, KMail, and OpenOffice. The laptop formerly had Win98 and she reported it eventually just quit running at all. I found that the problem was all the junk she had installed that used up the little bit of resources she had. With this Slack install, she won't be doing that - she won't have the root password, and I'll not teach her how to do anything other than surf, check her mail, and click on the word "Office Suite" that I'll write in her Fluxbox menu to associate with OOo. |
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btw, what is the program that configures flux? (would be like whiteBOX for blackbox) Quote:
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