Hello, I am running slackware 12.2 (xfce) on a dell inspiron 1525. I live in a location with dialup only. This system was running sweet, and all was happy with an external USB modem and wvdial until last night on a whim I decided to configure the internal modem with the linuxant alsa driver (bad decision but I wanted to lose a few wires). After install it ran and made happy modem sounds but acted buggy and wouldn't connect. I should say here that unfortunately I used the .rpm and rpm2tgz'd it. Realizing my folly, I used removepgk on it, but it left a slew of config entries and loaded modules (/etc/modules.conf, a bunch of entries in /etc/modprob.d, 4 hsf* modules...) So far I have:

* blacklisted all the hsf modules
* removed the /dev/ttyHSFS* entries
* commented out and/or removed all references in /etc I can find regarding hsf
* removed and re-installed alsa-oss, alsa-utils and alsa-lib (rebooting and re-trying a couple times)

Sound is now officially broken.

running alsamixer gives:

ALSA lib simple_none.c:1520simple_add1) helem (MIXER,'Master Playback Volume',0,2,0) appears twice or more
alsamixer: function snd_mixer_load failed: Invalid argument

I get the below on boot (and from 'aslactl restore 0'):

Loading driver...
Loading ALSA mixer settings: /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
/usr/sbin/alsactl: set_control:1273: failed to obtain info for control #19 (No such file or directory)

(above repeats for control #19 through #25)


here is:

bash-3.1$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xfe9fc000 irq 21

bash-3.1$ cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_hda_intel

bash-3.1$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel

I can run alsaconf and all seems fine though right at the end there is a blink of (what looks like) the same boot error screen that is too quick to read before it says "alsa is ready to use, have a lot of fun!"

Anybody have any words of wisdom for me? I've googled this one around quite a bit and am ready to re-install slack (lesson learned: don't be running errant converted .rpm's in the middle of the night from who knows where!) :/

Hi I have reinstalled slack as I'm not sure what got installed/changed on my system by running this installer. Winmodems are hit & miss and I've won some/lost some. If anyone's looking for a dial-up solution I would have to give the age-old advice of: "get a cheap external modem"....I've had several, serial and usb, and they are relatively simple to get up and running with either kppp or wvdial...

Mahalo!