ALSA mixer cannot be found - stuck on the commandline forever
 

Hi there,

I'm new to Linux and installed yesterday Slackware 10. I ran all through the installation succesful, untill I wanted to start up the GUI - after I typed 'startx' the thing started flippin' and my monitor turned black for about a minute. When I finally saw the black&white colors again (those of the command line), all i could read where errors:

ALSA mixer cannot be found
.
blablabla
blablabla
.
.
Running as realtime process now (priority 50)

ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:549(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe.


and the last 2 lines repeated about 5 times more on my screen. Then, i stayed stuck at the command line forever :(

I use a Pentium III 500 mhz, nVidia FX 5200 graphics card (already installed it using 'sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run') and an ESS 1969 PCI sound device.
I used bare.i to boot up during installation and also installed hotplug.
I'm totally new to Linux so this might be all quite stupid, however,
please help me! Thanx, Pazkaw

Try upgrading your alsamixer using slapt-get
slapt-get tutorial: here

I just installed the update by reading the link to that tutorial you gave me, but I'm still having the same problem and got the same error over and over again :(

:newbie:
Forgot to configure alsaconfig and xorgconfig; it's now all working fine
Anyway, thanks for your help, hylke