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Slack 10 - No Sound After Fresh Install

It's rather strange; Slack's never been at odds with any of my hardware before, and none of my bios settings have changed (on-board sound is off). I've already tried the usual suspects: volume levels, etc, but I don't really know where to start looking beyond that.

Here's the output from lsmod and lspci, as suggested by other threads on the subject:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P

ppp_deflate            3256  0  (autoclean)

zlib_deflate          18328  0  (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]

bsd_comp                4344  0  (autoclean)

ppp_async              7392  1  (autoclean)

ppp_generic            19492  3  (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]

slhc                    4976  1  (autoclean) [ppp_generic]

snd-pcm-oss            37736  0  (unused)

snd-mixer-oss          12504  0  [snd-pcm-oss]

ipt_state                504  1  (autoclean)

ip_conntrack          19236  0  (autoclean) [ipt_state]

iptable_filter          1644  1  (autoclean)

ip_tables              12416  2  [ipt_state iptable_filter]

evdev                  4384  0  (unused)

wacom                  6008  0  (unused)

keybdev                2052  0  (unused)

mousedev                4212  1

hid                    21220  0  (unused)

usbmouse                2040  0  (unused)

input                  3200  0  [evdev wacom keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse]

usb-storage            66176  0  (unused)

snd-emu10k1            62920  0

snd-hwdep              4804  0  [snd-emu10k1]

snd-util-mem            1136  0  [snd-emu10k1]

snd-ac97-codec        49500  0  [snd-emu10k1]

snd-rawmidi            12740  0  [snd-emu10k1]

snd-seq-device          3888  0  [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]

emu10k1-gp              1352  0  (unused)

gameport                1420  0  [emu10k1-gp]

bttv                  94656  0  (unused)

i2c-algo-bit            7144  1  [bttv]

i2c-core              12804  0  [bttv i2c-algo-bit]

videodev                5952  2  [bttv]

snd-bt87x              5192  0

snd-pcm                56072  0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-bt87x]

snd-timer              13604  0  [snd-pcm]

snd-page-alloc          6328  0  [snd-emu10k1 snd-bt87x snd-pcm]

snd                    30852  0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-bt87x snd-pcm snd-timer]

soundcore              3396  10  [bttv snd]

uhci                  24444  0  (unused)

ehci-hcd              17580  0  (unused)

usbcore                59308  1  [wacom hid usbmouse usb-storage uhci ehci-hcd]nvidia              3643676  6

ntfs                  51424  1  (autoclean)

ide-scsi                9328  0



***



00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 PCI Bridge

00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)

00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 0a)

00:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)

00:0b.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)

00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 80)

00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 80)

00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 80)

00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)

00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge

00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0344 (rev a1)

The sound is fine in XP, by the way.

did you already run " alsaconf " ?
if so, did you get any errors there...

egag

I think I might be onto something already; I just don't know what to do about it.

Alsaconf doesn't return any errors, it tells me Alsa is ready to go, and nothing changes.

However, when I run alsamixer to play with the volume instead of kmix (which always crashes at the moment), the card and chip starts up trying to mix by default is my tv card (Brooktree Bt878). So it's obviously interfering in some manner.

ah...you've got also " snd-bt87x " loaded
maybe try to unload it ( rmmod snd-bt87x ) and see if it works then...

btw.:how do you normally set up sound from your tv-card ?
i have mine with a cable connected to an input of the mobo-sound.

egag

Quote:

Originally posted by egag
ah...you've got also " snd-bt87x " loaded
maybe try to unload it ( rmmod snd-bt87x ) and see if it works then...

I unloaded snd-bt87x, and now alsamixer doesn't fire up at all: "alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device"

Quote:

Originally posted by egag
btw.:how do you normally set up sound from your tv-card ?
i have mine with a cable connected to an input of the mobo-sound.

egag

Physically, there's an external jumper between the two cards. I've actually never gotten the thing to function correctly since Mandrake 8.0, so I've basically ignored it since then. Until this point it's never been a problem.

you could try to add the module to /etc/hotplug/blacklist ,
so it won't be loaded at boot.
after that, a reboot is the most simple way to look if all works.
( i guess at boot the bt-module is used by the kernel as your first sound device )

then check again with alsaconf...

egag

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, that did 'er. Thank you very much, egag.

ah...good to hear... :)

egag

Quote:

Originally posted by egag
ah...good to hear... :)

egag

Yes, it certainly is! =D