hi every body
i have downloaded kernal 2.6.5
and run it
after finishing installing it and restarting
a massage appears saying that the soun cant work
i opened the terminal and typed alsaconf
and tried to fix the problem but it said that therewas no use and if u continue ur system will become unstable
(my sound works good on kernal 2.4) my sound card is creative

Hi

You need to install the alsa drivers from a slackware mirror, you will find them in the testing folder of slackware-current.

Look for alsa-driver-1.0.11rc3_2.6.15.6-i486-1.tgz

Regards

Hi Ahmed,

firstly, why the older kernel (or did you mean 2.6.15)?

Did you compile drivers for your sound card as modules or into the kernel?

If you could post the exact text of the error you recieved when running alsaconf, that would be useful -- I doubt Slackware uses AOL-speak when printing errors.

If you can reboot using kernel 2.4, review the output of /sbin/lsmod and compare that to your 2.6 kernel conf.

p0f,

you don't need to install the 2.6 alsa drivers from Slackware if you build your own kernel from scratch (and include alsa, of course).

Hi

I know, but I assumed he installed the current kernel from testing, so he would need to pull the alsa driver from testing to get his sound working again.

Regards

the error exactly was "
error while intilalizingthe sound driver device /dev/dsp cant be opened no such a divice
the sound server will continue with null output device
"
hint: i work previosuly on kernal 2.4.31
when i installed new kernal i installed the defult settings
without looking to them

can any body help

try

Well, you could try answering questions.

Did you download kernel 2.6.5 sources from (say) kernel.org or are you using one of the 'official' Slackware 2.6.x testing kernels?

If you downloaded kernel source and compiled it without configuring it for your system, it's highly probable that modules/drivers were not included for your soundcard. You can re-compile your kernel by going in to the directory you extracted the source to, run "make clean" and then "make menuconfig" to configure your kernel. Then you can re-run the make, make install etc.

Knowing the answer to this question would be very helpful.