hi, i didn't have sound for a few days, but by accident i found out that if i adjust the headphone on the mixer, the main volume goes up, i'm using slackware 10.2 i've checked to make sure i'm plugged into the correct place in the sound card and it seems to be

"Sounds" more like a driver issue (No pun intended...lol)

Can you post the results of:We can go on from there

just a thought, maybe he needs to runs 'alsaconf' redetect the card, then after it's done, run 'alsamixer' and move the sliders all up, then hit escape key, back to root prompt, and then type 'alsactl store' ...then '/etc/rc.d/rc.alsa restart"

maybe his alsaconfig didnt save/set his volumes correctly? so whenever he boots back in, his volumes are turned way down?

dunno...

here is the results from lspci:

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
01:09.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 315PRO PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
01:0a.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 536EP Data Fax Modem

and here is the results from lsmod:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
n_hdlc 6120 1 (autoclean)
ppp_synctty 4968 1 (autoclean)
ppp_generic 19556 3 (autoclean) [ppp_synctty]
slhc 4592 0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
snd-pcm-oss 36736 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 12376 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
uhci 24284 0 (unused)
usbcore 59148 1 [uhci]
snd-intel8x0 18304 1
snd-ac97-codec 58556 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm 54344 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec]
snd-timer 13764 0 [snd-pcm]
snd 32772 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer]
soundcore 3396 4 [snd]
snd-page-alloc 4712 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd]
pcmcia_core 39172 0
ide-scsi 9392 0
agpgart 45508 0 (unused)

well your hardware should not be havin support problems on slackware. Just read through what Old_Fogie said, that should solve it.

Hey Old_Fogie!
Thanks for the tip. I followed your instructions and I now have sound!!

You guys rock.

very glad to "hear" it LOL pun intended