Hi All. Used to run Mandrake but thought it was time to try something new.

Installed Slackware 11 without to much strife but have no sound. Not entirely surprising as I always seem to 'get trouble' with me sound!

Ok specifics. The system is a Panasonic CF T1 laptop with a onboard Intel 82801CM/CAM AC 97 sound chip. On installation I used the bareacpi.i kernel (2.4.33.3).

I ran alsconf, no problems
then alsamixer, unmuted everything
then alsactl store
added normal user 'me' to the audio group
rebooted (dont know if this is necessary)
AND then, no sound, at all, anywhere
in xmms I set it to use arts for output and the bars on the equaliser bounce up and down with enthusiasm but not sound.
This is the same with root incidentally.

lspci lists........
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

lsmod lists........
snd-seq-oss 23104 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 3208 0 [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 33552 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-seq-device 3716 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq]
snd-pcm-oss 28928 0
snd-mixer-oss 11928 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-intel8x0 19188 3
snd-ac97-codec 68160 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm 52804 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec]
snd-timer 13168 1 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd 34304 1 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-seq-device snd-pcm-oss s nd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer]
soundcore 3300 6 [snd]
snd-page-alloc 4980 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-seq-device snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-p cm snd-timer snd]

cant seem to find any reference to sound/snd/AC 97 in dmesg or syslog.

Please someone point me in the right direction and I would very much appreciate your time and expertise.

BashTin.

Sounds like you did all the right things there.

Try a couple of things:
- quit X and in a console run or another sound file if you want

- configure XMMS to use the ALSA output instead of Arts, it might be that Arts is yur problem.

Eric

Thanks for the quick reply Alien Bob.

Tried the command line stuff before in a terminal and still no sound. I did drop out of X though to try what you suggested and found

"fifo_audio_out: audio buffer underflow"

sounds curious??

Did not work still.

Tried changing Xmms to use alsa with same result. Tried using output devices mixer, dsp, default, IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA, etc, All dead??!!

Any ideas, anyone???

BashTin.

SORTED BUT WTF??

Ok it came to me. It had been a while since I had installed a new Linux system so it is not to suprising I sort of forgot some of the more obsure elements of my set up.

So to cut a long story short I booted back into XP and UNmuted the volume then booted back into Slackware and I had my sound all up and working again. It is not a fluke or a figment of my imagination as I can reproduce the problem again on Slackware (this happened to with Mandrake which is why I know about it) just by muting the sound in XP again.

BUT anybody know how this is working??

BashTin.

PS more problems to follow!!