Thank you npierce, Sadly an upgrade to 5.4.2 made no difference. I took a look at the bug fixed post and I tried to create the symlinks (I even copy/pasted the script to make sure) but the result was "no such file exists". I'm going to retry the command line on the updated version, I'll let you know ...

Thanks darkcity,
Yes, I think soundconverter did start to install.
The triangle icons actually work and I can access the applications but nothing on the desktop displays as it should, the background has gone as well.
It's a full install.

Hello All, I hope this post gets through. I was downloading soundconverter via ppm on my Precise box when all the text letters were replaced by outline rectangles. The desktop is the same and the icons are now yellow warning triangles. The background is as normal and I can use the menu etc from the ...

Hello Folks, My apologies for the gap in communications, very busy with one thing and another. Yes, thank you, the ponies, horses, sheep, goats, llamas, donkeys and the one old alpaca all weathered the storms safely. Re: The colour cast problem. Yes, it's an ATI card. No, resolution was set to 24bit ...

I was just getting ready to re-install Lupu or try Precise when I decided to play about a little more. By altering (dramatically) the saturation and brightness on the desktop settings and with much juggling of the gamma set-up I have arrived at a useable screen. I'd still be grateful for any input ...

Hello again Semme, Busy day today, bad storm yesterday, another one coming tomorrow. Thank you for the script, I used both versions but ended up running fsck manually. I fixed all the problems that were presented to me but there is no change. Fiddling with the Gamma still leaves me with a colour ...

Hello Semme, Thanks for the input. I shifted all the xscreensaver stuff from /usr/bin to /temp when I got the problem although there was no problem until I ran Xorg video wizard. I checked xgamma and got Red 1.202 green 1.000 and blue 1.000. It's a full installation Ext 2. I'll do fschk tomorrow, it ...

Hello, Lupu 528 with Xfce4. Very pleased with it. I was trying to get xscreensaver to work after downloading the Debian packages. The result was a black screen and the message: Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". I checked the config and load GLX was present so I tried Xorg video wizard ...

I've solved it.
The profile file was missing the last line - Default=1.
with that in place all works fine.

I've always wanted a puppy that could use all of my RAM so I've downloaded Lighthouse64 Mariner and It's very pretty. In order to give it a trial I wanted to use thunderbird so I followed my usual pattern and pasted the contents of my existing thunderbird default folder into the new one. This has ...

Thank you SFR,
That worked fine. I didn't have an ISO of Lupu but I found another distro, a Debian based one which provided the required bin.
Thanks again.

Hello again,
Still delighted with my Slacko but I don't seem to be able to securely remove files. With other distros I've used the "shred" command or "srm" neither of which is apparently available in Slacko. What do you use, anyone?

Darkcity, you are a star!
That last idea (delete /etc/asound.conf) worked. The system is, at present, working correctly, I am indebted to you.
I hope that one day I may be able to offer help on this forum, I always seem to be the one with his hand out.

I tried your suggestion darkcity.
I removed the two files from /etc/modprobe.d and re-booted the installed version. MPlayer showed ALSA in preferences but didn't play, nor did the internet. I'm wondering if a complete re-install would be the answer. I hope not.
Your continued help is much appreciated.

Thank you yet again darkcity.
I'll have to look at your latest advice later on, got my hands full at the moment.
I'm using a full install of Slacko 5.3.3 High Memory which I imagine uses 4G of my 8G available RAM. The processor is an AMD FX-4100.

lsmod | grep snd return, live disc attached.

Here's a thing,
I put the disc in and ran Slacko live. In a live situation setting MPlayer to ALSA works fine and Youtube music plays as I would expect. This is on the same PC as I have Slacko installed (from the same ISO disc).
Weird?

Thanks npierce,
You were correct in assuming that it wasn't going to be that simple, the setting was already 74% but I appreciate your input.
The only positive aspect of this problem is that unlike my usual posts, it's actually baffling someone else, so I don't look so dim.

Thank you darkcity, I appreciate the time you're devoting to my problem.
When I set the default to ALSA I get no sound.
Retrovol shows the sound card as hw:0
alsa.conf and alsa-base.conf are attached.

Thanks darkcity,
I have JRE installed already, if that is what is meant.
aplay -l should be attached.

Hello All, Slacko 5.3.3 - magic, everything works, even glabels! Great sounds from music files etc BUT, nothing from internet connection. Absolute silence irrespective of browser (Iron or Seamonkey) tried all the sound cards using ALSA wizard to no avail (no barks either) Mplayer blasting out Roy ...