Hello,
Finally getting my network to work properly I next set out to get my sound and ATI drivers to work. I looked at all the howtos and a few questions were raised. First, I looked at a bunch of different ways that you can get your sound working, but none seem to get me an exact way to do it. Secondly, which driver should I be using with a X850XT. They all seem to talk about the cards slightly newer and slightly older than mine. Thanks again.

PS I feel like such a noob right now.

Hi toasty_ghosty, First which version of Slack/Kernel are you running? Then, please post the output from the following commands. Good luck. ;-)

I'm using the newest kernel and Slack 12.0, and heres my print out:

theking@slackware:~$ /sbin/lspci -v | grep audio
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
theking@slackware:~$ /sbin/lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_dummy 6788 0
snd_seq_oss 32896 0
snd_seq_midi_event 10112 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50640 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10508 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 42784 0
snd_mixer_oss 18048 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_intel8x0 32412 1
snd_ac97_codec 98980 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 6016 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 72068 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 22532 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 47204 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd _timer
soundcore 9824 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 11528 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

Looks like everything is loaded have you tried alsamixer to unmute your sound?
Good luck. ;-)

I cranked them all the way up and nothing has seemed to happen...

Do you have sound as root? Are you a member of the audio group? Check the settings in alsamixer, you may have some digital and some analog settings. Some cards can't do both.
Good luck. ;-)

I've tried turning them all up and none of it seems to work...any ideas? I tried turning them up in root too and that didnt seem to work either. Ideas?

I think I figured it out...I was just reading saying that in base slackware installs you must be in the sys group in order to use the internal sound card...But my root account was already in it so that could not have been it.

Cranked them all the way up does not mean is unmute. Can you double confirm this?

I turned them all the way up and unmuted them, but I later found the cause of the problem. The setting were not getting saved. I needed to save the changes. Now I know...Problem solved though...