I have Slack 10.1 installed with a 2.4 kernel bare.i of the CD, all works
OK. I used Alsa to get the sound to work no problem.
I have now install 10.2 on another partition using 2.6.13 kernel (test26.s)
of the CD. I can't get the sound to work.
I used alsaconf then alsamixer, & checked with kmix to make sure nothing was
muted.
The sound card is an onbourd VIA8235 chip.
Can anybody tell me the changes from 2.4 to 2.6 that might have affected the
sound.
I have looked at google etc but can't see any answers, it seems the sound is
configured but is silent.
Does anybody know where I should be looking?

Thanks
Lezo

Did you install the latest alsa-drivers that were in the same dir you
got your 2.6.13 kernel (I presume you are using the Slackware 2.6.13
kernel)?

reclusive monkey wrote:

> Did you install the latest alsa-drivers that were in the same dir you
> got your 2.6.13 kernel (I presume you are using the Slackware 2.6.13
> kernel)?

Yes I installed the packages from the linux-2.6.13 dir.
Lezo

Lezo wrote:

> reclusive monkey wrote:
>
>> Did you install the latest alsa-drivers that were in the same dir you
>> got your 2.6.13 kernel (I presume you are using the Slackware 2.6.13
>> kernel)?
>
> Yes I installed the packages from the linux-2.6.13 dir.
> Lezo

I had a though!!!

I have both 2.4.31 & 2.6.13 alsa-driver packages installed.
Will uninstall 2.4.31 & see what happens.

Lezo

Lezo wrote:
> Lezo wrote:
>
>
>>reclusive monkey wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Did you install the latest alsa-drivers that were in the same dir you
>>>got your 2.6.13 kernel (I presume you are using the Slackware 2.6.13
>>>kernel)?
>>
>>Yes I installed the packages from the linux-2.6.13 dir.
>>Lezo
>
>
> I had a though!!!
>
> I have both 2.4.31 & 2.6.13 alsa-driver packages installed.
> Will uninstall 2.4.31 & see what happens.
>
> Lezo

It's completely OK to have both those packages installed.
In fact, it's the only way you will have sound in both the 2.4 and 2.6
kernels (if you have lilo entries for both of course).

Eric

I have found the problem but don't know how to fix it.
I have a TV card attached & that is getting the sound, ie if I plug
headphones in the TV card phone socket, I can hear what should come out of
the speakers!
So my TV card (bt878 chip) is being used instead of my VIA 8235 onboard
card.
How do I change this in alsa?

Thanks
Lezo

Lezo <not@all.com> wrote:
> So my TV card (bt878 chip) is being used instead of my VIA 8235 onboard
> card. How do I change this in alsa?

If you dont need to use the soundcard features of your TV card the easiest
way is probably to add snd-bt87x (or which driver the card might be using)
to /etc/hotplug/blacklist.

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Lezo wrote:
> I have found the problem but don't know how to fix it.
> I have a TV card attached & that is getting the sound, ie if I plug
> headphones in the TV card phone socket, I can hear what should come out of
> the speakers!
> So my TV card (bt878 chip) is being used instead of my VIA 8235 onboard
> card.
> How do I change this in alsa?

I had a similar problem recently.

Doesn't "alsamixer -c <card number>" (0 or 1) allow you to unmute sound
on each card separately?

Andrew

Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote:

> Lezo wrote:
>> I have found the problem but don't know how to fix it.
>> I have a TV card attached & that is getting the sound, ie if I plug
>> headphones in the TV card phone socket, I can hear what should come out
>> of the speakers!
>> So my TV card (bt878 chip) is being used instead of my VIA 8235 onboard
>> card.
>> How do I change this in alsa?
>
> I had a similar problem recently.
>
> Doesn't "alsamixer -c <card number>" (0 or 1) allow you to unmute sound
> on each card separately?
>
> Andrew

Yes that got it
Thanks for the help
Lezo