Thus spake Keith O'Connell: > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > OK - I am up for this! Unfortunatly I do not know how. I can think of no > > > occassion when I have tried to get sound from a command line program. > > > Can anyone tell me a command line program that I can install to test to > > > see if the sound module is OK. A CD player or just an exotic type of > > > beep will do! > > > > > > Keith > > cdcd for cd's, mpg123 or mpg321 (different programs) for mp3's or > > whatever. See what happens. You may also want to make sure your user > > is in the audio group. If those work fine, then you've run into the > > Gnome sound problem, probably caused by Gnome trying to run sound on one > > sound server (esd? - I think) when a different one is installed/running. > > Check the archives - someone else had this problem a month or two ago. > > CDCD - OK got that, ran that - total silence! :-( > The user is in "audio" - I also tried it as "root", the es1371 module > was enabled in /etc/modules, but silence. Seems to be not a problem to > lay at the feet of Gnome, but certainly someting I need some more > guidance on What's the output of lsmod? Is the module actually loaded? Also try something like aumix to make sure the volume is turned on. If the module is loaded, and the volume is up, hmm . . . Good luck, Steve -- "Jesus saves...but Gretzky gets the rebound!" -- Daniel Hinojosa (hinojosa@hp-sdd)
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