I can not get sound to work in slackware 10

bobwhoops · 02-05-2005, 05:05 PM

I've tried alsaconf. It comes up with two options, intel8x0, and legacy. I'm guessing that legacy is the wrong one, so I tried the former one. It runs fine. I try playing a file afterwards, and no sound. I run kmix, put everything up high, and it still doesn't work. Anything else that I should try?

320mb · 02-05-2005, 06:00 PM

you need to run alsamixer and turn the volume up.........
maybe...........

d00msweek · 02-05-2005, 06:01 PM

try running aumix

XavierP · 02-05-2005, 06:03 PM

Yep, 320mb is right: run alsamixer, turn up the volumes and then quit alsamixer. Then run alsactl store.

bobwhoops · 02-05-2005, 06:46 PM

Oops, sorry for forgetting to mention that. When I run it, it says "No mixer elems found"

XavierP · 02-05-2005, 06:48 PM

Did you follow all of the instructions on the Alsa-Project site? Including the 2 files you need to edit/create?

bobwhoops · 02-05-2005, 06:57 PM

Ok, I got alsamixer to work by adding the -c1 flag. Still no sound though.

And I looked at the alsa homepage, but I could only find instructions to compile it into the kernel and things like that.

Edit: I'll look again though.

bobwhoops · 02-06-2005, 07:44 PM

It's still not working. I tried following the instructions at http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...dule=intel8x0, but that didn't work either :/

Also, when I start x I get this:

Sound server fatal error:

/tmp/mcop-eric is acessible owned by user

I'm not sure what the two files that I need to edit and create are though. I've edited a lot of files trying to get this to work, so I'm not sure which ones you're refering to.

Error1312 · 02-11-2005, 01:14 PM

I'm having exactly the same problem here. Sound doesn't want to work, whatever I try. It's also an intel8x0 sound device.

mcd · 02-11-2005, 06:49 PM

well, i still don't know why, but to get my sound working i had to add

snd-intel8x0m

to /etc/hotplug/blacklist

like i said, i don't know why, but you could give it a shot.

Error1312 · 02-12-2005, 02:41 AM

k, thx, I'll try it out. ( I'm working on Windows now).

kornerr · 02-12-2005, 11:21 AM

Do you have alsa compiled as modules? I was unable to use sound after compiling them into kernel. And use newer kernel.(I use 2.6.7 cuz it was on the second Slack CD)

Seppel · 02-13-2005, 04:35 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bobwhoops
Ok, I got alsamixer to work by adding the -c1 flag. Still no sound though.

And I looked at the alsa homepage, but I could only find instructions to compile it into the kernel and things like that.

Edit: I'll look again though.

Seems pretty much as if you have some other device plugged to your machine that is in any way able to record or produce sound. Perhaps a webcam with microphone? If so, I'll guess this "sound" device (linux detects this also as a sound device because it handles sound in any way) is recognized by alsa first and therefore set up as your default sound device (/dev/sound/dsp0). The problem is that most applications want to play sound through this device, and, in case it is only a microphone or something like that, this simply won't work. I've worked around that by editing my /etc/modules.conf (/etc/modprobe.conf on 2.6 kernels). I'll post an example here:

Code:

/etc/modprobe.conf
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.8 ---
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 #my soundcard
alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio #my webcam microphone
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---

This way, my soundcard is set up as snd-card-0, which is the default sound device most apps use (as written above).

Perhaps this helps you out.

Greetings,

Seppel

bobwhoops · 02-13-2005, 02:59 PM

Yeah, it was the modem, like mcd suggested. I can access it without -c1 now. Still doesn't work though.

For instance, when I try running xmms and playing a file, it says:

** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Device or resource busy

I can kill arts to get rid of that warning, but again no change.

Seppel · 02-14-2005, 03:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bobwhoops
** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Device or resource busy

I can kill arts to get rid of that warning, but again no change.

Did you choose the right output plugin within XMMS? XMMS 1.2.10 comes with ALSA support, you can choose it in the preferences (I think).
Did you unmute the mixer channels? I know this might be a stupid question, but there are people complaining about no sound and forgot to unmute the channels they use (I am one of them ;-)

Greetings,

Seppel