I can't get sound to work in Slackware 10.1 at all. The annoying thing is, I have tried everything, yet it always seems to work, but no sound is actually output. And yes, I am sure the mixer settings are all set to on, and that the sound is actually turned on. Also, there is no connection problem with the speakers, since sound is fine in XP, and used to work fine with 10.0.

I have tried alsaconf, alsamixer, alsactl store, but to no avail. When I try to play, say an mp3 using xmms, it appears to output fine, and generates no error messages, either in the console or under GNOME. There simple is no sound.

I have tried chmod 666'ing /dev/dsp*, /dev/sequencer*, /dev/mixer*, etc. No luck.

The gnome volume controller says that no audio/mixer devices are detected, however when I try to adjust them in KDE, it works fine - there's just no output when I actually try to play something.

I have tried mpg321 on an mp3 in the console. No luck.

I have removed the alsa packages and built my own ones. Everything continues to behave in the exact same manner.

I know my sound card is an on-board Intel AC97, and have tried building a 2.6.11.5 kernel, with alsa support for it compiled in, but this still doesn't work, and utils and libs compiled separately (should I have done that or is that all done in-kernel?)

I have no idea what is wrong and it's really quite frustrating. Everything appears to work, there is just no sound. Any idea what else I could try to get sound up and running? I am at something of a loss.

And just to reiterate, I have never gotten an error from any of this.

maybe try to add yourself to the audio goup ?

open the file /etc/group ( as root )
and type your name after the " : " in the line saying " audio "

egag

ah, forgot to mention that. I tried that. No luck.

No real solution, but persists the problem, if you chose another sound output like "oss" or "esd"? You could start xmms and in the program settings switch between these.
Or on command line use the -o option to tell mpg321 which output to use, e. g. "mpg321 -o oss file-to-play.mp3"

I had this same sound problem when I upgraded my kernel from 2.4.26 in Slack 10 to kernel 2.4.29. I got help hear from perfect_circle at this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=300393

hmm. It doesn't work on either the old or the new kernel. =/

the card is detected fine. xmms plays the song, no errors, but there is never any sound output. And it's nothing physical, I am listening to an mp3 right now on XP.

I know it worked fine with 10.0. Was there anythign changed outside the ALSA stuff? ... Would that even affect it? Anyone have any ideas at all?

Ok sound Girl to the rescue.

Slack girl here

Now Sound card is AC97 so this is what I suggest. Go to Alsa Project and get the Alsa Drivers 1.09rc2 and then un gz them to a folder. run make config, then run make, then run make install, it will install the new settings intoyour system. One note: I as of yet have to get the Mic working on my SBLive24bit but installing this new alsa item made my sound much clearer in KDE, not on GNOME the sound information has to be added on install when you initially setup GNOME as the main desktop, it will work fine that way. If you setup KDE first then it seems to take over. The other thing is KDE version and GNOME version, 3.6 GNOME from the Slack 10.1 disc and KDE 3.3.2 also, I think they have a new GNOME out, and KDE is now 3.4. Hope this helps.