I had the same issue... I opened KMix > put an "X" in the "Advanced"
box and played around with the green radio buttons... and ended up
turning off Exchange D... and IEC958 Out...

I tried all the rest got the best sound with those options....

Jason

Fox <no@spam.com> wrote in message news:<%jDCc.1050$Qn4.384@newssvr31.news.prodigy.co m>...
> This is a fresh install of Slackware 10 on a Dell C640 notebook.
>
> The installation completed without any problems. After booting to the new
> system, I try to run alsamixer to setup my sound card (lsmod shows the
> correct snd-intel8x0 drivers are loaded) I receive the following error:
>
> "No mixer elems found"
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks to all the professional "Slackers" out there,
>
> Fox