do i need to enable alsa in the kenrel to get sound ?

I guess you've recompiled the kernel, so that depends on what you enabled or didn't enable.
You can enable Sound Support (no OSS, no ALSA, just Sound support) and then install the alsa-drivers or you can enable Sound Support and (inside there) compile ALSA drivers as built-in.
So you need at least Sound support in the kernel.

i enable just sound support and update slackware to current using swaret
when i try to run alsaconf it can't find my audigy card

and they only module loaded is agpgart any ideas

also what u mean by built it

do u mean compileing it from source

By built-in i mean built into the kernel (not as modules, directly into the kernel).
Try ls /var/log/packages/alsa* and show as what you have.

Hey tuxgurz, before compile kernel you should at least know what is a feature compiled as module or as built-in...

module : You mark checkbox in config with a 'm' or '.', depending if you
configure from xconfig or menuconfig. Feature will be compiled as module so you have to load module to use it.

built-in : You mark checkbox with a 'X' or a 'check sign', depending on your config mode. Feature will be compiled directly in kernel, so you don't have to load it, but kernel ends with bigger size.

thanx guys i post the info when i get home

@Cedrik

i know what a module is

for sound support i have select yes in the kenrel for alsa i said no because it version 1.0.4 in the kenrel yet version 1.0.6a is out i see also that my sound card support in the kenrel but only part off it

i have not set anything as modules
for sound support should i have done this ?

gbonvehi
/var/log/packages/alsa-driver-1.0.6a_2.4.27-i486-1
/var/log/packages/alsa-lib-1.0.5-i686-1dl
/var/log/packages/alsa-oss-1.0.6-i486-1
/var/log/packages/alsa-utils-1.0.5-i686-1dl

that all i have

Cool so you've alsa installed, try getting the latest packges from slackware and upgrade them. After that run alsaconf

when i run alsa conf i get can't find module snd

think i redo me kenrel this time and see if i can fix it

thanx guys for the replies i post info when done

how do i compile ALSA drivers as built-in


man does playing with the kenrel become a bad habit

You have to compile the alsa-driver as slackware package is for 2.4.27 (look at its package name).

- download alsa-driver 1.0.6a source from http://www.alsa-project.org
unpack it, then run the configure script as follow :

./ configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
--with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1 \
--with-sequencer=yes --with-oss=yes \
--with-cards=all

Note the last parameter will compile all drivers for all supported cards, if you want only your driver card compiled, do ./configure -h to see audio cards list.

After configure do :
make
make install (to install) or checkinstall (to install and build package)

if you didn't compile the ALSA drivers als module, then you don't to use alsaconf because the drivers are built-in.
alsaconf can only configure driver modules. if they're builtin, it's like you have already configured.
so you can already use alsa.

With fs and alsa compiled as module, my kernel image size is 1420 KB so it fits on floppy

(just to explain the advantage to compile snd as module)