Sound weirdness

[Chris]

Did you load the alsa-oss modules? Try "modprobe snd-pcm-oss" and see if 
that helps.

Regards,
Chris

David Barron wrote:
> Just to be sure I rebooted completely and did not start up xwindows. According to ps there is no esd running, there's practically nothing running, but I still can't get any sound.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moritz Heiber [mailto:moe at lunar-linux.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:11 AM
> To: Lunar general discussion list
> Subject: Re: Sound weirdness
> 
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> that sounds like something is blocking your /dev/dsp (Like a 
> malfunctioning esd daemon f.e.). Make sure you're using an ALSA output 
> plugin and kill the esd before starting any playback.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Moritz
> 
> David Barron wrote:
>   
> 		Yes.
> 		Intel-810, using snd-intel8x0 in modules
> 		Yes, sounds module is loaded in the kernel.  Seems to me the 
> 		snd-intel8x0 wouldn't load without that. Yes, I unmuted all the 
> 		channels.
> 
> 
> 		-----Original Message-----
> 		From: Nick Hudson [mailto:nhudson at lunar-linux.org]
> 		Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:40 AM
> 		To: Lunar general discussion list
> 		Subject: Re: Sound weirdness
> 
> 
> 		Did you compile alsa-driver for your specific sound card?  What kind 
> 		of sound card do you have?  Did you make sure that the sounds module 
> 		is loaded in the kernel?  Are you 100% sure that you unmuted all the 
> 		correct channels in your alsamixer?
> 
> 		Nick
> 
> 
> 		On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 08:34 -0500, David Barron wrote:
> 
> 
> 		    
> 			I can't seem to get sound to work at all in Lunar.  Hardware-wise
> 			everything is working because the sound works fine when I boot off the Knoppix live cd.  Here's what I've done in Lunar: Installed alsa-driver, alsa-lib and alsa-utils.
> 			Brought up alsamixer to unmute all sound channels and set volume to max.
> 			Used alsactl store to do the obvious.
> 			My user id is in the following groups: audio, users, cdrom, floppy
> 			Installed mp3blaster.  Start it up, load an mp3 file and start it playing.  Mp3blaster runs with no error, but there's NO SOUND!  I've also tried playing a wave file in Gnome Sound Recorder but I get an error about /dev/dsp being busy.  When I exit Xwindows I see that esd has generated some errors:
> 
> 			Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed
> 			Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo.
> 			Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
> 			Trying 48Khz, 16bit stereo.
> 
> 			I know it's not likely that anyone will be able to say "this is what's
> 			wrong" but can anyone make any suggestions where I might start?
> 
> 			Thanks