How ironic! One of the reasons I went with Slackware was because it was the only distro that liked my onboard sound :P . I had tried some other distros' live CDs, and sound didn't work in any of them because their ALSA versions were too old. I was interested in Slackware already, and tried one live Slackware-based distro (it was a Brazilian distro called ImagineOS, but it doesn't exist anymore), and sound surprisingly worked. I confirmed that the ALSA version in the original Slackware was the same as in the derivative distro, and that was that.
I have a post about how I started using Slackware on my personal blog (though I didn't mention the bit about ImagineOS there):
Oh, thank you! My first SBI share, finally! :D
And my favorite is Slackware Linux. Certainly not a common choice!
I ran slacko puppy on a few older devices for a while, tested slackware after that but it didn't like my onboard sound.
How ironic! One of the reasons I went with Slackware was because it was the only distro that liked my onboard sound :P . I had tried some other distros' live CDs, and sound didn't work in any of them because their ALSA versions were too old. I was interested in Slackware already, and tried one live Slackware-based distro (it was a Brazilian distro called ImagineOS, but it doesn't exist anymore), and sound surprisingly worked. I confirmed that the ALSA version in the original Slackware was the same as in the derivative distro, and that was that.
I have a post about how I started using Slackware on my personal blog (though I didn't mention the bit about ImagineOS there):
http://aiyumi.warpstar.net/en/blog/how-i-started-using-linux/
The post is very old, though. It was published in 2011 and contains a translated mailing list message from 2009! So, a lot has changed!
As for something more up-to-date, I've recently written a review of Slint Linux, the Slackware-based distro that I began using this year:
http://aiyumi.warpstar.net/en/blog/slint-linux-review/