Slackware won't use my soundcard. I have an AC'97 soundcard but it won't start, I've tried alsaconfig but i don't know if i did something wrong. also, my usb mouse won't work either. anyone have any ideas of why they won't work. I also am having problems connecting to a VPN network, if anyone has pointers on this it'd be much appreciated. I have to connect to a switch in my barracks, then it's routed to the main server. I was told by a windows IT guy that i should be fine connecting to the barracks server, it's the main one i have to connect to using hardware specific software. I'm pplanning on checking the make and model tomorrow also. thanks all.

Can you post you get when you run the commands lspci and lsmod. If you have snd-intel8x0m there, you will have to add that to your hotplug blacklist.

Here is a post that might help out.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ght=ac97+sound

been really busy lately, haven't been able to get on here and reply, i hope someone at least sees this. although i've almost given up on slackware. might just go back to suse, or pclinuxos. hope this works, because i would like to see what's so great about slackware, but i just can't use a distro that won't use my mouse or sndcard. does anyone know of a way that i can find out what driver my mouse uses?



Module Size Used by Not tainted
snd-mixer-oss 12152 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd 31268 0 (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss]
snd-page-alloc 4712 0 (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss snd]
soundcore 3396 0 (autoclean) [snd]
keybdev 1892 0 (unused)
mousedev 4020 0 (unused)
hid 20804 0 (unused)
usbmouse 1880 0 (unused)
input 3200 0 [keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse]
usb-ohci 19368 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 17516 0 (unused)
usbcore 58860 1 [hid usbmouse usb-ohci ehci-hcd]
ohci1394 23888 0 (unused)
ieee1394 41636 0 [ohci1394]
8139too 13928 0 (unused)
mii 2272 0 [8139too]
crc32 2880 0 [8139too]
ds 6548 2
yenta_socket 10436 1
pcmcia_core 39172 0 [ds yenta_socket]
ntfs 51232 1 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 9392 0
agpgart 45092 0 (unused)




00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5831 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5838
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4347 (rev 01)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4348 (rev 01)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4345 (rev 01)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 18)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4349
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4342
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434d (rev 01)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5835
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc: Unknown device 1411
02:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc: Unknown device 0530
02:04.2 Class 0805: ENE Technology Inc: Unknown device 0550
02:04.3 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc: Unknown device 0520

seems like everything is unknown, is this bad, i've used unknown devices before , but if i have to get online and download drivers for everything, it's pointless, i can't get slack to connect to the internet either. but i'm trying to connect to a Microsoft VPN. Talked to a windows server guru guy and he said that as long as i can find out what the actual server connecting to the net is, i should be able to connect using hardware specific software, any ways, i hope i don't need to download lots of stuff, cause i'd be moving back and forth between windows and linux. Bleh.

What is the make and model of the PC?

Check this post for information on using your ac97 card. I am also having the same problem. I haven't had a chance to try what is mentioned in the post I linked, so I will report back when I get a chance.

Jon

toshiba satellite A-75

Go here and read the the part about the sound card.
http://jmccoy.sdf-us.org/slackware10/toshiba-a75.php

It says to use ALSA instead of OSS and you may have to add the drivers to your hotplug blacklist.

here is a link that listing ALSA drivers.
http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-audiocd.html

I just ran # alsaconf and it started working.

Setting up sound:

#alsaconf

#alsamixer

#alsactl store

alsaconf will hopefully find your sound card

i've already used the alsa commands (conf, start, and stored them.), to no avail. i must have to blacklist it. does anyone know why this is? out of curiosity?

There is a bug with some of the drivers, not sure what the bug is.

BTW, thanks for your service. Just noticed your location.

ah, well, that explains it. i've had trouble with fedora 3 also. lasted a total of 3 min and i reinstalled mandrake. can i get a little help with blacklisting the driver , i've heard that works, and also, what do i have to do to configure the kernel in slack? is it the same as any other distro? It's been a while anyways, i've got slackbook, it really isn't much use for troubleshooting, although there's a lot of good info. And, hey, not a problem, it's what i do. You'll be glad to know we "removed" one unsavory individual(bomber) the other day, but, they're like flies, you smash one, and all the others feed off of that. Ah, i miss the good old days. lolhttp://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&threadid=361111#
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...readid=361111#

Slackware keeps it's hotplug blacklist in the /etc/hotplug directory. Edit the blacklist file in there and place the name of the driver that you want hotplug to ignore.

Compiling the kernel, I made a quick how-to for doing that.
http://www.hclg.org:8080/tangle/linu...pile-a-kernel/

If you plan on doing it, be patient and take your time. It is easy to forget something and screwup your kernel.