I've decided to do a fresh install of slack 10 on my IBM T30 laptop. I
had slack 9.1 before and everything was working fine. Since kernel 2.6.7
is included, I instaled that, but I have a problem. There is no sound. I
can only hear sound when I install alsa driver package. I set sound
levels with mixer, do alsactl store and everything is working. However,
after reboot there is no sound and when I trie to run alsamixer I get
the message that no mixer elements could be found. Any ideas? I don't
think that reinstaling alsa driver at every boot is a good solution for
this problem ;-)

Elvis Slavic wrote:
> I've decided to do a fresh install of slack 10 on my IBM T30 laptop. I
> had slack 9.1 before and everything was working fine. Since kernel 2.6.7
> is included, I instaled that, but I have a problem. There is no sound. I
> can only hear sound when I install alsa driver package. I set sound
> levels with mixer, do alsactl store and everything is working. However,
> after reboot there is no sound and when I trie to run alsamixer I get
> the message that no mixer elements could be found. Any ideas? I don't
> think that reinstaling alsa driver at every boot is a good solution for
> this problem ;-)

I had this same problem with my Dell Latitude D505 that I bought
recently. the solution was to uninstall the ALSA packages, and compile
also from source. worked fine after that.

Stefan Koopmanschap (remove withoutspam to e-mail) wrote:
> I had this same problem with my Dell Latitude D505 that I bought
> recently. the solution was to uninstall the ALSA packages, and compile
> also from source. worked fine after that.

I did as you sugested and now it's working. Thanks for the tip.

Elvis Slavic wrote:
> Stefan Koopmanschap (remove withoutspam to e-mail) wrote:
>
>> I had this same problem with my Dell Latitude D505 that I bought
>> recently. the solution was to uninstall the ALSA packages, and compile
>> also from source. worked fine after that.
>
>
> I did as you sugested and now it's working. Thanks for the tip.

no problem. always glad to help out other people, as that's the way I
learn most of my things around linux as well