configuring sound on two laptops

Bob Vila · 06-16-2004, 09:30 PM

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?

Bruce Hill · 06-17-2004, 01:01 AM

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

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev 82)  <-- onboard sound
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB ICH4 IDE (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0322 (rev a1)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 03)  <-- pci sound card
02:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 03)

and we'll find your sound from there.

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?

Bob Vila · 06-17-2004, 10:17 AM

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bash-2.05b# lspci

thank you, i will try that, but what do i do after i figure out what my card is?

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Btw - why are you using a Slack version that old?

well, i was content running 9.1 with blackbox because KDE/GNOME would never work on something this old, and then my sister got fed up with windows and wanted to run linux, so i put it on there for her, but couldnt figure out the sound, so i put it on mine too so that i could figure it out faster since i wouldnt always have access to her laptop

Bruce Hill · 06-17-2004, 10:34 AM

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.

Bob Vila · 06-17-2004, 11:16 AM

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)
00:01.0 Brige: Intel Corporation 430MX - 82371MX [430MX PCIset - 82371MX DE Xcelerator (MPIIX)] (rev 02)
00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems TGUI 9660/9680/9682(rev d3)
00:13.0 PCMCIA bridge: Cirrus Logic CL (rev e2)

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I still don't understand why you're running Slack 7.0 when you've got 9.1

my sister is a newb and it would really help getting started to have a nice GUI

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Anyway, do you know how to configure sound on Slack 9.1?

on my desktop, all i did was run alsaconf, but it couldnt find my sc when i ran it on my laptop

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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.

thats exactly what happens

Bruce Hill · 06-17-2004, 06:06 PM

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.

Bob Vila · 06-17-2004, 10:08 PM

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But please explain to me why (or how) you can get a nice GUI with 7.0 and not with 9.1?

kde uses a lot less resources in 7 than it does 9.1

so unless you can point me to a good gui for 9.1...

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For your sound - ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwa...WTO/Sound-HOWTO - it's probably on the Slackware 7.0 CD you made also.

thanks, i will try that.

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Btw - I get a 404 on both links in your sig. May just be me...

wouldnt suprise me, i regestered here a long time ago and never updated my profile since

Bruce Hill · 06-17-2004, 10:23 PM

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kde uses a lot less resources in 7 than it does 9.1 so unless you can point me to a good gui for 9.1...

By GUI I guess you mean a desktop environment. That's one of the reasons I run Slackware, so that I don't load a bunch of useless resources when I boot. That's Windoze mentality, for those who can't launch a program without a little clicky button. Now, I don't mean that critical, and that may describe your sister. But for my money (and resources) I'd much rather run Fluxbox and teach them how to right-click to get a menu and then just open the app(s) they desire. Plus, you can launch whatever you want with the X-server in Flux. I'm kinda experimenting with this method on this, my workhorse. I launch GKrellM and KMail with X, because I always want them on the desktop. KDE is IMO a waste of good cpu cycles and memory. Same with Gnome and all the other de's I've tried. I only use my comp to produce work, and it does that better without a bunch of unnecessary stuff loaded.

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.

Bob Vila · 06-18-2004, 10:17 AM

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That's Windoze mentality, for those who can't launch a program without a little clicky button. Now, I don't mean that critical, and that may describe your sister

i dont think its criticle, it's true :lol:

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I'd much rather run Fluxbox and teach them how to right-click to get a menu and then just open the app(s) they desire. Plus, you can launch whatever you want with the X-server in Flux. I'm kinda experimenting with this method on this, my workhorse. I launch GKrellM and KMail with X, because I always want them on the desktop. KDE is IMO a waste of good cpu cycles and memory. Same with Gnome and all the other de's I've tried. I only use my comp to produce work, and it does that better without a bunch of unnecessary stuff loaded.

thats the same reason i run blackbox
btw, what is the program that configures flux? (would be like whiteBOX for blackbox)

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How's your sound issue? Does that Sound-HOWTO in 7.0 have the info you need?

havent had time to thumb though it all yet