Thus spake Keith O'Connell: > > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > I have a machine based on a Gigabyte GA-7ZX. It has a 1.2 Ghz AMD and > > > 512Mb. I have managed to establish that the sound chip on the board > > > requires the es1371 module, and this I selected at installation time, > > > and it duly appears in /etc/modules. > > > > > > This is where the problem arises. If the module is left in the > > > /etc/modules file, then my Gnome desktop locks up solid and the only way > > > out is to pull the power lead out of the back of the box! If es1371 is > > > commented-out then Gnome runs perfectly, but in absolute silence. > > > > > > I have had sound running fine on two other boxes with different sound > > > chips, so I am reasonably sure that my method is good in principle, but > > > I cannot get it to work in with particular combination. Hopefully > > > someone else has encountered, and solved, what I clearly cannot. > > > > > > My only requirement is that the solution does not go outside "stable". I > > > am finding Linux a big enough challange without bringing in > > > "testing/unstable/sid" into the equation > > > Do you use kdm/gdm? If you can get to a terminal, try playing music > > outside of the Gnome environment to isolate the problem - I seem to > > recall several people on this list having sound problems in the past few > > months with Gnome, although I don't remeber why. If you can play sound > > from the terminal, then it _will_ work, just a question of tweaking > > Gnome. > > 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. HTH, Steve -- Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.
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