I am running slackware 9.1 and upgraded my alsa through swaret (auto upgrade). After upgrading I dont get any sound after I reboot my machine. If I open a terminal and run alsaconf, and take it through all of the steps, it works just fine. I also am not able to use the alsa plugin for xmms. I have to use the esound plugin for my xmms to work. If I use alsa, it gives me the error box that asks you to check your plugin to make sure it is correct. Here is my /etc/modules.conf file:

alias char-major-195 nvidia

# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.2 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

And here is lsmod:

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
ppp_async 7488 1 (autoclean)
ppp_generic 15428 3 (autoclean) [ppp_async]
slhc 5008 1 (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
nvidia 1628416 11 (autoclean)
ipt_state 536 2 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 1644 1 (autoclean)
iptable_mangle 2072 0 (autoclean) (unused)
iptable_nat 15278 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_conntrack 18692 2 (autoclean) [ipt_state iptable_nat]
ip_tables 12128 6 [ipt_state iptable_filter iptable_mangle iptable_nat]
snd-pcm-oss 37636 1
snd-mixer-oss 12400 1 [snd-pcm-oss]
usb-storage 65632 0 (unused)
keybdev 1956 0 (unused)
mousedev 4212 1
hid 21092 0 (unused)
usbmouse 2040 0 (unused)
input 3200 0 [keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse]
parport_pc 14788 0
parport 23400 0 [parport_pc]
uhci 24508 0 (unused)
usbcore 59276 1 [usb-storage hid usbmouse uhci]
snd-via82xx 12288 0
snd-mpu401-uart 3216 0 [snd-via82xx]
tulip 40416 1
crc32 2880 0 [tulip]
snd-emu10k1 61924 2
snd-pcm 56232 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer 13572 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-hwdep 4836 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-util-mem 1136 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-page-alloc 6356 0 [snd-via82xx snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm]snd-ac97-codec 43404 0 [snd-via82xx snd-emu10k1]
snd-rawmidi 12768 0 [snd-mpu401-uart snd-emu10k1]
snd-seq-device 3888 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd 30372 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-mpu401-uart snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-util-mem snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3396 11 [snd]
emu10k1-gp 1352 0 (unused)
gameport 1420 0 [snd-via82xx emu10k1-gp]
ide-scsi 9360 0
agpgart 43972 3

Any help with this would be very much appreciated, Thanks in advance!

Are you settings muted? Run alsamixer to see. As for the XMMS and ALSA thing, I could never get it to work. I just set XMMS to use OSS and ALSA catches it and it works.

I checked my alsamixer settings but they do not seem to be muted. I still cant figure out why I have to type alsaconf every time I start my computer........any ideas?

the same exact thing happened to me. when i updated via swaret, my sound stopped working . any insight into this problem would be great

I had this same problem this morning, folks. I had no sound and couldn't run "alsamixer" at all. After googling a bit, I found out I had to upgrade my kernel, and I did so using swaret. (Kernel version 2.4.24). Sound works again.

I have kernel 2.4.24

Did you run 'alsactl store'?

This problems seems to be happening more and more.

I advise everyone to look at this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=155857

I had the same problem.......

make sure that in kmixer that you dont have the external audio clicked under the advanced portion.....that was what my problem was