Hello,
Saw M8prefinal1 iso last night - downloaded and installed it.
Have used AntiX 7.5 and 8rc3. Great distributions! Thanks Anti for your continued work on these and everyone on the forum for help, tips and suggestions.
M8pre1 looks great and runs fast. Saw some differences in the fluxbox menu and the Control Center. Only thing I miss in the new menu is the 'see all apps' but that's really minor.

Sound always worked automatically on my system in 7.5 and 8rc3 (I have nvidia ac97). Nothing came out in 8pre1 - so I configured the sound card through the control center (it found the nvidia ac97) and even heard a pop when the ALSA configurator started - but still no sound afterwards. I then used Alsamixer and turned everything on - still nothing.

I don't know Linux well enough to know what else to do or try? Was there anything different between the way sound was set up in 7.5, M8rc3 and 8pre1?
Thanks very much for your help.

Hi.

Open a terminal and type
inxi -A

to get sound card info.
You might need to edit a file in /etc/modprobe.d

Hello Anti,
Thanks for the quick response.
inxi -A gives:

Card: nVidia MCP51 AC97 Audio Controller driver: Intel ICH
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.17

More info needed.

lsmod | grep snd

Edit: Try #commenting this line in /etc/modules.d/snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel position_fix=2

Then run alsaconf again, turn up alsamixer.

Hi Anti,
Here is lsmod | grep snd:

snd_intel8x0 27932 0
snd_ac97_codec 89380 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 3456 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 34720 0
snd_mixer_oss 14208 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 58756 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4484 0
snd_seq_oss 26880 0
snd_seq_midi 7584 0
snd_rawmidi 18592 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 7552 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 41968 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 18440 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 7564 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 42660 10 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 7648 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 8584 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

============================

Here is my etc/modprobe.d file. I tried your suggestion of commenting out the line you suggested:
From the file:

# some chips require that the model be set manually
# for example asus g71 series may need model=g71v

#options snd-hda-intel position_fix=2
options snd-hda-intel model=auto
========================

then ran Alsa Configurator and also alsamixer again. Still no sound.
I left the line commented out.

Try using oss sound driver in xmms and see if it works.
xmms->Options->Preferences->output plugin->oss driver

Maybe there is a problem with the kernel.
Try a dist-upgrade (there is a new kernel available). You will lose gnumeric, but you can get it back easily with

#aptitude install gnumeric and agree to the first choice.

Thanks for working on this.

I tried the OSS driver but still nothing.
Will need to get off for a few hours but will try and kernel update when I come back. I did a dist-upgrade earlier with smxi but didn't include a kernel upgrade.
Also - I'm assuming I should be using the sid-sidux option in smxi.

Thanks again and I'll let you know how it goes.

Hi Anti,

I ran smxi again - using Debian repos and there was no new kernel listed. Then a reboot with the M8rc3 disc and sound came on with no extra configuration. I then ran lsmod and got the following:

demo@mepis1:~$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0 27548 3
snd_ac97_codec 90276 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 3456 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 33952 0
snd_pcm 58244 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_mixer_oss 14080 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4484 0
snd_seq_oss 26524 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7424 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 42024 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 18312 3 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 7692 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd 42680 13 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 7496 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 8584 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

Its similar but there are a few different entries - though I don't know what any of it means. modprobe.d file looks the same as pre1.

Probably be the simplest to just reinstall M8rc3? Don't think anyone else is having this problem.
Thanks.

Thanks for your help Anti.
Since I use the system for work (and enjoy music while working) I reinstalled M8rc3. Also did a full dist upgrade with Sid and Sidux, noticed a new Sidux kernel but didn't install it. Sound automatically worked as it did on previous AntiX versions.

New question - I use VirtualBox (Lenny version installed through smxi) for part of my work and in the past - when I used other distributions - upgrading the kernel always broke the VirtualBox modules. Will that happen in AnitX? If so, any easy to get VirtualBox back without removing and installing it again?

As I've said, I really enjoy using AntiX. Its a great lite distribution, wonderful scripts, and lots of help on the forum.

smxi uses svmi module to install virtualbox, that module includes an option to rebuild your kernel module for virtualbox.

You can run svmi in X, using a terminal.

That makes the process fairly trivial.

svmi doesn't get as much publicity as sgfxi, but it's the same idea, except it's an interactive program more than sgfxi is.

svmi is part of the smxi.zip package, and should also be triggered by the smxi-stub installer as well.

Like sgfxi and smxi, it updates itself automotically when you start it so it's always up to date and current.

If you are using virtualbox-ose, you probably want to install the kernel module for it using the smxi kernel module installer, after that the new module will get installed automatically every time you install a new module using smxi.

If you are using the non-ose, you will need to use svmi to manually rebuild your kernel module each new kernel.

By the way, to correct something, when you install a new kernel, the vbox isn't broken, if you start using your old kernel, the module will work fine, but it just doesn't work on the new kernel.

Thanks for the response h2!

Its been great to have smxi included in Antix - its such a great and useful addition. I'll read up on svmi. Alao appreciate your adding installers for other packages within smxi. Have been using it to install open office, fonts, and vbox.