Hi! I'm building an arcade machine with my FIRST robotics team and our only hurdle left in completing it is getting sound to work on slackware. I don't have all the details on hand right now, but tommorrow I will fill them all in.

Distro: Slackware (9.1 or 10, not sure which)
Soundcard: Builtin motherboard soundcard is unknown, undetected by alsaconf. Put in what I think is a Sound Blaster Ensoniq AudioPCI ens1371 discription in the machine. I would link, but these fourms don't let me.

What I've tried so far:

* Running alsaconf detects nothing. Googling indicated that messing with the BIOS my help things, haven't tried this yet. Any comments on said method would be welcome.
* Tried to follow the instructions on the ALSA matrix page for the card I installed, but didn't get very far.

Tommorrow I will give more details and post the output of lspci. I have no idea where to start, having never done sound before.

Thank you all very much ahead of time.

my friend also had a problem .... similiar to urs in slack 10.


try recompiling the kernel ..... with alsa inbuilt into the kernel..

and make sure ur section of soundcards[OSS compatibility with Alsa or Alsa] are always built as modules...

try

#amixer

if you get a load of output scroll then unmute amixer

Code Listing 3.6: Unmuting the sound channels

# amixer set Master 100 unmute
# amixer set PCM 100 unmute