Sound problems, potato, alsa

[Christopher Klumb <cklumb@bayou.uh.edu>]

I have recently installed potato.  I have been having some problems with
sound.  Currently, I have the alsa packages installed, including the
alsa version of esound.  I have followed the directions for installing
the alsa, i.e. editted the /etc/modules.conf.  Here are some of the
problems I am experiencing:  When logged in as a regular user, launching
a mixer application gives me the error message "No mixers found.  Make
sure you have sound support compiled into kernel."  However when I am
root, I am able to start a mixer.  In fact, after rebooting I have to
start sound as root and then log in as a user.  Also, XMMS runs fine
with the eSound plugin, but not the OSS driver.  Freeamp works with both
the alsa and eSound plugin, but not soundcard.pmo.

I'd like to thank all those who replied to me previous questions.  Also,
thanks to all the developers and bug testers who have made Debian
possible.

Since, potato is still frozen I was not sure if this was the appropriate
list to post to.  If not I apologize.

Thanks
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Christopher Klumb
cklumb@bayou.uh.edu