ALSA plays, but not with sound

[Emma Jane Hogbin <emmajane@xtrinsic.com>]

A very strange series of events has given me the ability to play a sound
clip, but not to listen to it.

Unfortunately I did so much stuff that I'm not entirely sure what the
right order of operations is...but here we go:
	- recompile kernel to change sound from built-in to module
	- apt-get install alsa
	(dpkg-reconfigure something to make sure the ali5451 driver was
	selected)
	- install modules/drivers from source:
		- cd /usr/src
		- tar -xfj alsa-driver.tar.bz2
		- cd /usr/src/modules/driver
		- .configure
		- make
		- make install
	- comment OUT the following lines from BOTH
		  /etc/modutils/aliases and /etc/modules.conf (I do not
		  understand why I have to do this, but if I don't I get
		  errors re. unresolved symbols when I try to load the
		  modules)
		  - any line with my card name (ali 5451)
		  - any line with snd-mixer-oss
		  - any line with snd-pcm-oss
	- update-modules
	- load the modules with modprobe:
		modprobe snd-ali5451
		modprobe snd-mixer-oss
		modprobe snd-pcm-oss
	- check for loaded modules with lsmod:
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P  
snd-pcm-oss            36036   0
snd-mixer-oss          11032   0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-ali5451            10636   0
snd-pcm                53920   0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-ali5451]
snd-page-alloc          4096   0 [snd-pcm]
snd-timer              12680   0 [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec         30944   0 [snd-ali5451]
snd                    26404   0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-ali5451 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore               3428   3 (autoclean) [snd]
	
	
	- aumix: turn on all volumes to "5"
	- try playing a sound with xmms:
		- libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such
		file or directory
		- BUT sound will actually appear to be playing -- the only
		  problem is that I don't actually get a sound coming out
		  of my laptop...
	- mgp321 will also "play" the clip, but won't produce any sound:
emmajane@debian:~/sound$ mpg321 holygral.mp3 
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3.
Version 0.59q (2002/03/23). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Playing MPEG stream from holygral.mp3 ...
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 24 kbit/s, 22050 Hz mono


emma

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