Slack 9.1 and Gateway Solo 9300 Sound Trouble

[nameless_v2]

How do i turn the sound up ?(<---damn what a noobie question)
The controls on the keyboard doesn't work and even with the volume set to max on xmms or xine i can hardly hear it. So i guess what i am asking is how to get more volume (is there a mixer i dont know about?)

thanks all,
peace,
Trevor

[Icarus]

alsamixer is a good start if you are using ALSA

Something if probably muted or turned way down by default (I know when I install ALSA I need to unmute it first)

# amixer set Master 100 unmute
# amixer set PCM 100 unmute

[nameless_v2]

for some reason alsamixer doesnt work,.....ill have to get the error next time i am at the laptop, is it possible for the sound card not to be compatible?
iits a ES maestro 2E sound card.

ill get the error soon,
peace,
Trevor

[Icarus]

More likely you don't have alsa-tools installed
http://www.alsa-project.org/

Probably be a good first step to see if you are even using ALSA or OSS ;)

[mdwatts]

Use the commandline 'lsmod' to see what soundcard modules are loaded. If they are prefixed with 'snd-', then you are using ALSA.

i.e.

snd-mixer-oss 16184 0 (autoclean)
snd-seq-midi 5184 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 4064 0 [snd-seq-midi]
snd-seq 44208 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-cmipci 24984 0
snd-pcm 78432 0 [snd-cmipci]
snd-page-alloc 7028 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 4480 0 [snd-cmipci]
snd-rawmidi 16416 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-opl3-lib 7300 0 [snd-cmipci]
snd-seq-device 4660 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi snd-opl3-lib]
snd-timer 17984 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm snd-opl3-lib]
snd-hwdep 5472 0 [snd-opl3-lib]
snd 43204 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-cmipci snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-opl3-lib snd-seq-device snd-timer snd-hwdep]
soundcore 4356 0 [snd]