hi. i just installed slack 8, of course went to kde-look.org and downloaded my favorite background, the green lightning stike. my problem is that i have no sound with my santa cruz sound adapter. does one need to download sound drivers for this card? another question, will slack recognize some sound cards and immediately play the xmms player.

where do i check if sound card drivers are installed ? thanks rons

No usually slack won't ever setup sound for you. Usually you have to load the module yourself and configure, sometimes even having to recompile the kernel, but not always. Give us the model and type of sound card you have, someone here should know off hand what module or driver it uses if its supported that is..

hi. it is the santa cruz sound card on my abit be-6 11 v.2 board.got to get to work. later

I don't think Slack8 has support built in for the Santa Cruz by Turtle Beach, but I do know that www.opensound.com has drivers for the card to get it working in Linux. If I am mistaken someone correct me but check out the opensound.com site for more info on it.

also you can check in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound for info with sound on Slack.

back again.

i downloaded oss396e-linux-v2x.tar.gz drivers, x86 and suppose to support santa cruz. started the install, somewhat successful, and not. this is what happen.

1. downloaded oss396e-linux-v2x.tar.gz
2. gunzip oss396e-linux-v2x.tar.gz
3. result is oss396e-linux-v2x.tar
4. tar xvf oss396e-linux-v2x.tar
INSTALL
LISCENSE
oss-install
oss-pkg
ui_curses.so
ui_X.so

questions-
1.what does question 4 above actually doing
2.sort of lost of what to do next. should i creat a temp directory, use the archiever to move the untar file there, and then do the following commands from terminal - cd /temp
chmd +x oss-install

okay, this is what i did. i changed sound cards, now have soundblaster live in the slack machine. i also went into the usr/src/linux/doc/sound and found many files there. awe32,soundblaster, solo1,soundpro, many more files.

when i saw the soundblaster file, that is when i decided to put the soundblaster live card in .

any suggestions on what to do, i will look at the readme.awe and readme.modules and readmeoss and see what i can figure out.

also, maybe you can give me a opinion on the other post i listed.thanks ron

Look in the /etc/rc.d/rc.modules file. Scroll down to the ' Sound support ' section and look for Sound Blaster Live support. Then uncomment the line following it and that should get it going the next time you boot up. You could also run that line at a command prompt to get sound going.

well. i put the santa cruz card back in, and i believe i got the oss drivers intalled, still, no xmms player.

Got this from the opensound site about oss:

You just need to read the For Slackware part.


Also make sure that:

Using kmix make sure that the sound isn't set to be very low that you can't hear it, and that it is not muted, by checking that the red lights are not off.