Posting reply back to list (for others to chime in on) Malcolm,
You need to find the Terminal application (possibly in the Accessories menu). The simply run "lspci | grep -i audio" and post the results back to the list. (Another alternative, again to be run in a terminal, is "lshw -class multimedia" ) I would be surprised if neither of these give a result. Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Malcolm Johnston <dr...@internode.on.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 01 April 2009 00:04, you wrote: >> Not being a Slackware user, I don't know the specifics of your issue. >> >> In order to give potential advisers a clue, we would at a minimum need >> to know the model of motherboard, and hence hopefully the onboard >> sound chipset you are using. Also if you post the result of "lspci", >> filtering out the device line that would seem to pertain to the >> soundcard it might help. (BTW, when you said you replaced a Intel >> Celeron with an AMD Athlon CPU, you *must* have also had the >> motherboard replaced at the same time). >> >> For most Linux distros and sound cards these days it should "just >> work" so I imagine you must have something special. >> >> Regards, Martin >> >> martinvisse...@gmail.com >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Malcolm Johnston <dr...@internode.on.net> > wrote: >> > PS: I should also add that the distribution is Slackware 11, with a >> > 2.4.33.3 kernel, and that the bootdisk is "sata.i", which is one of the >> > vanilla bootdisks for the sort of hardware setup I have described. >> > >> > Malcolm Johnston >> > >> > -- >> > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >> > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > Hi Martin, > > Thanks for the reply. It was the Pentium 4 (and motherboard) that replaced > the AMD stuff. Is there a way I can probe for the chipset? It's a bit hard > to get info out of the guy who did the work as his English isn't very good. > As you say, it should just work anyway. There is an ALSA message on boot to > the effect that there is no declared state for the sound card, but my > understanding is that ALSA is not the basic driver set. Could you possibly > amplify on the "Ispci" command, although I don't think it's on my distro. > > Cheers, > Malcolm Johnston > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
