Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371
I just did that to be sure and it still does the same thing.
Is there any basic thing I can do to test the sound without using XMMS?
that would enable me to make sure it's not just an XMMS problem.
-D
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 06:28, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Didier Malenfant wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 23:16, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is it possible that you haven't created your audio devices? Example:
> > >
> > > # cd /dev
> > > # ./MAKEDEV audio
> > >
> > > other than that you should be fine...
> > >
> > > Cameron Matheson
> >
> > Nope, audio seems like it's there ok:
> >
> > dids@blue:~$ ls -l /dev/audio
> > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 Nov 30 2000 /dev/audio
> >
> > On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 19:11, Christian Eyre wrote:
> > > For starters, maybe try to run xmms in root to see if the problem
> > stops. If it does, then its a permissions problem.
> > >
> > > eg if,
> > > "ls -al /dev/dsp
> > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jun 24 2001 /dev/dsp"
> > > then,
> > > "usermod -G audio username"
> >
> > That's the first problem I had, xmms wouldn't even run because it
> > couldn't open /dev/dsp
> >
> > The problem I'm describing here is after adding my username to the audio
> > group.
> >
> > On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 04:27, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > > What command did you use to determine that sndstat was empty ?
> > >
> > > Cordially,
> > >
> > > Courtney
> >
> > I did 'cat /dev/sndstat' is there anything else I should do instead?
> >
> > Like this:
> >
> > dids@blue:~$ cat /dev/sndstat
> > OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
> > Load type: Driver loaded as a module
> > Kernel: Linux blue 2.2.18pre21 #1 Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000 i686
> > Config options: 0
> >
> > Installed drivers:
> >
> > Card config:
> >
> > Audio devices:
> >
> > Synth devices:
> >
> > Midi devices:
> >
> > Timers:
> > 0: System clock
> >
> > Mixers:
> >
> > Thanks for the help,
> > -D
>
> My card works OK and I get nothing when I cat /dev/sndstat, but I'm
> running 2.4.6, if that's the difference.
>
> I had your problem until I ran XMMS under root, so permissions was my
> problem.
>
> Thank you for your reply,
>
> Courtney
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