5 May 2005 17:14:27 -0700 - "LT Don" <don.benz@gmail.com> :

> Upgraded today (do it often) with Swaret.
>
> Sound card was working fine w/ ALSA prior to upgrade. [This is a
> system with a non-working motherboard sound chip and also a separate
> sound card -- ALSA had been seeing and using the card.] Had good sound
> when KDE loaded, playing CDs and had sound from web sites (i.e.,
> pbs.org).
>
> With the "upgraded" ALSA sound isn't working and alsaconfg isn't
> finding anything. I get errors when I run alsaconf but they go by too
> quickly to read.

You have to add "EXCLUDE=alsa" to your /etc/swaret.conf [1] [2].

[1] http://tinyurl.com/ax5an
[2] http://tinyurl.com/blsnt

> I thought swaret had a rollback feature but it isn't seen in --help
> now.

Just reinstall the official ALSA packages for Slackware Linux :

$ su - root
# mount /mnt/cdrom
# upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new /mnt/cdrom/slackware/*/alsa-*tgz

> Is there a config file I should blow away or one I should manually
> configure?

/etc/swaret.conf

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