ok i'm quite a noob...i just installed slackware10.0 and everything runs smoothly, but when i "startx" and go to kde i start hearing static from my speakers!
i haven't tryed anything much, because i really don't know what to do...

help?

have u run alsaconf ?
usually helps a little bit

thnx!
i did, it configd my soundcard( it showed 2 detected, i chose the pci one) but, i logged on to kde and the static began! and now i also have static when i'm in cmd line

what can i do to make it better? and btw, how do i stop soun...is there a "kill-all-sound" like command?

(thanx for the support)

Give us the output of both commands
dmesg
lspci

I want to find out what sound chipset you're using.
Thanks

BINGO! you must have a pci sound card AND on-board sound..........you need to go into your BIOS and dis-able the on-board sound!! this should get rid of your hissinggggg........

sorry about the delay, but here go the outputs;


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LSPCI
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root@darkstar:~# lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]

00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)

00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)

00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 16)

00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)

00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)

00:0b.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax/Voice/Spkp (w/Handset) Modem (rev 01)

00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit (rev 40)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)

root@darkstar:~#



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dmesg
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root@darkstar:~# dmesg

Linux version 2.4.26 (root@tree) (gcc version 3.3.4) #6 Mon Jun 14 19:07:27 PDT 2004

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)

BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)

BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)

BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fff0000 (usable)

BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000fff8000 (ACPI data)

BIOS-e820: 000000000fff8000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)

BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)

255MB LOWMEM available.

On node 0 totalpages: 65520

zone(0): 4096 pages.

zone(1): 61424 pages.

zone(2): 0 pages.

Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=305

Initializing CPU#0

Detected 997.492 MHz processor.

Console: colour dummy device 80x25

Calibrating delay loop... 1985.74 BogoMIPS

Memory: 256004k/262080k available (1844k kernel code, 5688k reserved, 618k data, 120k init, 0k highmem)

Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)

Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)

Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)

CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K

CPU: L2 cache: 256K

CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06

Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.

Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.

Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.

POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX

mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)

mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel

PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1

PCI: Using configuration type 1

PCI: Probing PCI hardware

PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)

PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0

Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4

Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039

Initializing RT netlink socket

Starting kswapd

VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1

Journalled Block Device driver loaded

vesafb: framebuffer at 0xda000000, mapped to 0xd080d000, size 1536k

vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=4

vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:0336

vesafb: scrolling: redraw

Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48

fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device

pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured

Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled

ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f

Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077

RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize

loop: loaded (max 8 devices)

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4

ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1

VP_IDE: chipset revision 6

VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later

ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1

ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio

ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA

hda: ST340810A, ATA DISK drive

blk: queue c03b3360, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)

hdc: ATAPI DVD RW 8XMax, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

hdd: CD-ROM Drive/F5E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14

ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

hda: attached ide-disk driver.

hda: host protected area => 1

hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63, UDMA(100)

hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.

hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12

hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.

hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)

Partition check:

hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2

md: linear personality registered as nr 1

md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2

md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3

md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4

raid5: measuring checksumming speed

8regs : 1650.000 MB/sec

32regs : 949.600 MB/sec

pIII_sse : 2011.200 MB/sec

pII_mmx : 2256.800 MB/sec

p5_mmx : 2356.000 MB/sec

raid5: using function: pIII_sse (2011.200 MB/sec)

md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27

md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.

md: autorun ...

md: ... autorun DONE.

LVM version 1.0.8(17/11/2003)

Initializing Cryptographic API

NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0

IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP

IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)

Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM

NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.

FAT: bogus logical sector size 0

UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.

FAT: bogus logical sector size 0

FAT: bogus logical sector size 0

reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal

reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,5)) ...

for (ide0(3,5))

ide0(3,5):Using r5 hash to sort names

VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.

Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed

hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }

hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }

hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }

hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }

ide0: reset: success

Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann

agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M

agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro chipset

agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000

scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices

NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O MODULE]

Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)

PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0c.0

tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7809 advertising 01e1.

eth0: Davicom DM9102/DM9102A rev 64 at 0xd000, 00:60:6E:70:29:85, IRQ 9.

PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:0a.0

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs

usb.c: registered new driver hub

uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1

PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.2

PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:0b.0

uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdc00, IRQ 11

usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1

hub.c: USB hub found

hub.c: 2 ports detected

parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]

parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378

hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 2

hub.c: USB hub found

hub.c: 4 ports detected

hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 3

usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x6b9/0x4061) is not claimed by any active driver.

root@darkstar:~#


thanx for any help!

I think what he means by finding two is
1) His actual sound card
2) the legacy one (Probe legasy ISA non pnp chips).

metalcafe, it seems you have a Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI sound card. I'm assuming alsaconf detected and installed its drivers for you.

Afterwards, you should run alsamixer, and unmute the master sounds, press escape, and then alsactl store to store the settings.

This should do the trick. Now as for kde, make sure you choose the ALSA in the sound settings. Currently by default Alsa can only play 1 stream at a time. Meening you can't run an mp3 player, and a video player at the same time and get both sounds. Similarely, you can have system sounds (beeps, bells, etc) but xmms and mplayer won't work. So either disable the system notification sounds, or add a .asoundrc file, which is discussed in this forum
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...43#post1562043

in short, create a file called .asoundrc in your home folder and stick all that mumbo jumbo code in it.

Hope this helps.