#1 2022-02-25 15:05:42

Colonel Panic

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Enabling sound in Slackware

Another Slackware one. I've noticed that in recent Slacks and distros derived from it, sound doesn't work out of the box and has to be enabled.

I'm not sure why, but it seems that there's a clash between pulseaudio and alsa-utils that is responsible.

One solution (there may be others) is to first remove pulseaudio, so enable root in a terminal;

su root <password>

then, at the console,

removepkg pulseaudio

That still doesn't do it, because alsamixer will redirect to pulseaudio by default when it loads; so we have to move its configuration file;

mv /etc/asound.conf /home

Then restart (or better, reboot) and alsamixer should work unimpeded.

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2022-02-25 15:06:59)

Colonel Panic

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Re: Enabling sound in Slackware

An update: I tried all this today and still didn't get the sound to work. I had to go into Audacious and click on the volume control there (at the extreme right of the toolbar) and then push the slider up from off the bottom where it was, and then the sound worked.

Edit: I have to keep doing it every time I log into Slack though.

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2024-02-12 09:40:05)

Colonel Panic

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Re: Enabling sound in Slackware

And now the sound in SlackEX (in Exton) has gone down. I may try the advice in this thread next;

https://www.linuxquestions.org/question … 175709191/

[Update: the advice didn't work, but what did was the advice I saw in the Linux Mint forums to check the speaker icons on the KDE taskbar. I did and found the sound was muted, so it had a happy ending after all ]

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2024-03-21 18:41:45)