No sound in xmms, on Dell Latitude D400, with Debian sarge r1.

["Amarendra Godbole" <amarendra.godbole@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I tried playing a song using xmms, but no sound seems to come from the
notebook. It is a Dell Latitude D400, with Debian sarge r1.

The i810_audio module (for AC'97 audio controller) is loaded, and xmms
is using the OSS driver 1.2.10 as the output plugin. I tried changing
it to ALSA 1.2.10, but it did not work. Surprisingly, while I used the
Totem player to play a DVD, the sound was fine (could not run Totem to
play a song though, it ``quits unexpectedly").

The dmesg tells me:
------8<----------
i810_audio: Primary codec has ID 0
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
i810_audio: Connection 0 with codec id 0
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
------8<----------

lspci -vv tells me:
------8<----------
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0139
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
>TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 0
        Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 7
        Region 0: I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
        Region 1: I/O ports at dc40 [size=64]
        Region 2: Memory at faeff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
        Region 3: Memory at faeff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA
PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
------8<----------

ANY pointers to enable the sound through xmms would be appreciated.
Shall be glad to furnish any more info. if needed. Thanks in advance!

Best,
Amarendra