no sound slackware 12.2
 

I've been searching these threads and tutorials on how to fix the sound for my linux but no luck. I wasted enough time. Can anyone tell me how I can get my sound to work? Do I have to install the driver for it? because I've noticed that most of you only had to type in some commands to get it.

I'm dual booting with Vista, so do I need to install drivers still?

Try to add yourself to the audio group
or you can use other text editor like kwrite then add yourself to audio line and there should be something like this
audio:x:17:root,yourusername
then logout and login then

if it is not working try to run alsaconf it will detect your card

Still doesn't work.
I ran alsaconf and everything looked good except still no sound uummm...??

Run 'alsamixer' and make sure the channels are unmuted (press m)

Hi,
You should make certain to run 'alsamixer' to un-mute the desired function. Then you should do a 'alsactl store' to save the settings.

You should be sure to have your users in the following groups;

Whenever you add users be sure to assign the above groups.

I've done a number of things to test my sound, even restarting the machine didn't help. This is the message prompt I got after using alsaconfISA
I have two choices:

"hda-intel Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio"
&
"legacy Probe legacy ISA (non-Pnp) chips"

I choose the first one and then it say's:

"configuring snd-hda-intel
Do you want to modify /etc/modprobe.d/sound
(and /etc/modprobe.conf if present)?"

I hit "yes" and then it says

"OK sound drive is configured
ALSA CONFIGUATOR
will prepare the card for playing now.
Now I'll run alsasound init script, then I'll use
a mixer to raise the default volumes.
You can change the volume later via a mixer
program such as alsamixer or gamix."

Then I hit "OK" and the shell-Konsole comes bake with this

"Now ALSA is ready to use.
For adjustment of volumes, use your favorite mixer."

But of course non of this works on my computer.

Are there any more susgestions?

it says I have an extra operand 'audio'

Did you run alsamixer as onebuck suggested?
For some reason, sometimes the sound is muted (for reference, I just did fresh installs of 12.2 on 3 boxes, and on one of them the sound was muted) - you have to choose each slider in alsamixer, and press 'm' to unmute it.

Then, as root, do alsactl store to keep the settings.

cheers,

Yep I tried it and my internal and external microphones seem to be working fine because a high pitched buzz started to get pretty annoying, so I just turned the microphones down. I've been trying to test the sound by running an audio cd and also by hitting a test button in the sound systems settings directory.
At least I'm half way to getting my sound because the microphones work

Does this happen to be an asus laptop ? Either way have a look here for possible solution:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...2/#post3496597