why my sound dies out often times?

wr3ck3d · 04-07-2003, 11:37 AM

I had the same problem with slackware 8.1 and the alsa 5 series drivers. (ac97 also, fluxbox for wm) i first loaded everything via /etc/modules.conf. That would work but die out every couple hours. Then i loaded the snd-via* module via /etc/rc.cmodules. And that worked.

Now in slack 9 with the 9 series alsa i have everything loaded by /etc/modules.conf and using gnome2 and everything is fine.

What alsa version are you using???

doublefailure · 04-07-2003, 01:11 PM

i was running 0.91
and upgraded to 0.92

still having the same problem =(

snd-via82xx.o ?

i'll try that then..

thanks

MasterC · 04-07-2003, 01:31 PM

Your mixer defaults muted, IIRC. So you have to set it to unmuted, and at a certain volume; then you also must place "alsactl restore" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local so that on each subsequent reboot your volume is restored. Here's a thread where Excalibur (The resident Slackware Guru) helped me out:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=30609

regarding a similar issue. It might apply to your situation and help fix the problem

Cool

doublefailure · 04-07-2003, 05:03 PM

thanks masterC

however i had 'alsa restore' in /etc/rc.d/rc.local for long time
and it works when booted

it goes away after a while =(