Re: sound - sometimes
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com> writes:
Tom> I am using a kernel sound module for my notebook (cs46xx). I can
Tom> get the sound to work. But yesterday while playing around I
Tom> started up KDE (as root) from the command line - I normally use
Tom> 'kdm'. I was greeted with all kinds of sound effects - startup
Tom> sounds, clicky sounds, windows open/close sounds.... I've never
Tom> heard them before! Under KDM, I don't get these - but I can get
Tom> some sounds... mostly a modified beep.
Perhaps kdm tries to grab the sound card and doesn't let go? Recent
versions of alsa seem to be having problems sharing the sound card, at
least in my experience. (Just a guess. I don't use kdm.) What happens
if you use xdm instead?
Tom> I tried to log in from the command prompt as "joe user" and the
Tom> sounds didn't work then either. Only root, only from command line.
Tom> I have "joe user" added as an audio group member and the rights are
Tom> set to crw-rw---- for the sound device.
To check that you have the permissions right, run amixer. If it's
right, you'll get a dump of the mixer settings. If it's not, you'll get
an error message.
Then try playing a wav file using "play" (play is part of the sox
package), or some similar program, from the command line.
Tom> When I boot - syslog has entries about unable to find (I forget
Tom> exactly the names) files matching /sound/ that came originally from
Tom> a failed alsa installation that I later purged. I have removed all
Tom> the alsa files, re-ran update-modutils and checked to see that
Tom> modules.conf do not reference these files. But they are still
Tom> being attempted.
Perhaps they are mentioned in /lib/modules/x.x.x/modules.dep?
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