Re: How do I get sound to work?

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:28:32PM -0700, rob bains wrote:
| dman wrote:
| >On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:08:00PM -0700, rob bains wrote:
| >| Hi,
| >| 
| >|   I'm using woody. I installed ac97_codec using modconf, but sound still 
| >| doesn't work in gnome apps like xmms.  It gives an error message..
| >| 
| >|   Couldn't open audio
| >|                               Please check that:
| >| 1. You have the correct output plugin selected
| >| 2. No other programs is blocking the soundcard
| >| 3. Your soundcard is configured properly
| >| 
| >|     I selected enable sound server startup in the gnome control centre, 
| >| and rebooted, but it won't play anything.  
| >
| >Exactly.  You start 'esd' which opens the sound device (usually
| >/dev/dsp).  Then you start xmms which also tries to open the sound
| >device, but can't because esd has it.  You need to configure xmms to
| >use the 'esound' output plugin instead of the 'oss' one.
|
|  O.k. I made xmms use esound output plugin, still doesn't work.

Does sound work at all?  When esd starts up you should hear a sound.
If you don't run esd, can you 
    cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
?  If you turn up the volume on your speakers you should hear static.

-D

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