Re: Sound help?

[Joel Konkle-Parker <jjk3@msstate.edu>]

Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> My mind is somewhat boggled when it comes to getting sound support 
> working on my machine. I have a Dell laptop with Woody using a 
> self-compiled 2.4.24 kernel. I have i810_audio.o and sound.o explicitly 
> loaded, with all their respective dependencies.


Sorry to reply to my own message...


> esd loads automatically with Gnome. Using XMMS' eSound plugin, 
> everything works great. After I kill esd, XMMS' OSS plugin works great 
> as well.
>
> But there's two problems that I'm trying to figure out:
>
> 1. Gnome's mixer applet doesn't work. Sure, it loads fine, and displays 
> a volume slider, but changing it has no effect whatsoever. The mute 
> button doesn't work either. This is with and without esd running.


Ignore this. Gnome's mixer applet controls the volume of the console 
beeps through the sound card just fine. I guess XMMS doesn't pay 
attention to the system mixer setting.


> 2. Sound in Enemy Territory doesn't work. The console messages when the 
> game loads say "sound system is muted", even though the mixer applet is 
> not muted, and XMMS works fine. The game complains about /dev/dsp when I 
> have esd running, so I kill esd before I run the game.


This complaint is still good. Anybody know why it says "sound system is 
muted"?


> Any advice, please?


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