Hello,

just got installed the latest version of slackware (13.1) on my Pavilion dv6. once i have start the kde enviroment i can hear the login sound, and if i were to go in to the settings-> multimedia i could alter from analog speaker to HDMI output. no issues..

somereason i didn;t like the KDE, i had to move XFCE and the trouble began, can't hear the sound... it shows the anlog output is playing (no errors) when i press the test button though, but nothing can be heared..

and the good news is just got the wireless and network is working fine.


thanks
mah

Open a terminal, type alsamixer and adjust your settings. After you're done, switch to root by typing su - and run alsactl -store.

Hello,

i wish i could get in to the display in order to do that. i was installing the Gnomeslackbuild (64bit) just i after i wrote to the forum about my sound card issue in xfce. the installation completed and i have just change the /etc/initrd as explained in the site. the default value was 3 and i use to get the login option and do the startx .

since i made the change to runlevel 4 it goes automatically trying to boot to gnome and there is only black screen. tried to kill the signal by alt+ctrl+backspace but no luck at all.


is there anyway i can get back in to XFCE or terminal option to change back the setup?


thanks

Press ctrl+alt+F6 and you get a console.

Hello,
I tried that combination ! still no luck!!! do u think i will end up re installing?

Hello,
i tried all the combination keys to kill the x, however end up re installing the slackware and then installing gnome through net install. activate the gnome by running xwmconfig . working fine. will be installing the ATI propritery driver later and see how that goes along with gnomeslackbuild.

the only issue i have right now is the sound card. i have tried the above method which was suggested by bonixavier. my device list shows in the multimedia system selector is " default, STAC92xx Analog, ATI HDMI" ..no sound still.

is there anything i am missing!?

lspci output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DMI (rev 11)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 11)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Management Registers (rev 11)
00:08.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor Semaphore and Scratchpad Registers (rev 11)
00:08.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor System Control and Status Registers (rev 11)
00:08.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor Miscellaneous Registers (rev 11)
00:10.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link (rev 11)
00:10.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Routing and Protocol Registers (rev 11)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 68c1
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device aa60
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
7f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-Core Registers (rev 04)
7f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 04)
7f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 04)
7f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 04)
7f:03.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller (rev 04)
7f:03.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder (rev 04)
7f:03.4 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Test Registers (rev 04)
7f:04.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Control Registers (rev 04)
7f:04.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Address Registers (rev 04)
7f:04.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Rank Registers (rev 04)
7f:04.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0 Thermal Control Registers (rev 04)
7f:05.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Control Registers (rev 04)
7f:05.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Address Registers (rev 04)
7f:05.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Rank Registers (rev 04)
7f:05.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Memory Controller Channel 1 Thermal Control Registers (rev 04)

If I understand you correctly, you had sound with KDE, but not with Xfce?
You are not getting sound when you try to play a music or video file with any of the multimedia players?
The sound isn't muted in the alsamixer?

its working fine now, re installing the slack did resolve the issue (not sure how did that worked anyway).
i am trying to install empathy now. hope it will work on XFCE, tried the pkgtool, every time i use the "install packages from other directory it just goes back to the prompt, no error were reported.


install package needs the tgz and i have the "empathy-2.30.2.tar.bz2" . is there any other method to install on slack?

thanks
mah