Re: Sound not working

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap@haitsma.org>]

> Nope; not what you want to do. Instead, add your user to the audio
> group, like so:
>    adduser jaap audio
>>
>> What I first tried is adding the audio group to my group but that
>> didn't work.
>
> After adding your user to the audio group, you'll need to logout and
> back in.

Thanks, forgot that :-(. It more or less works now (See below)



> Still doesn't work?
> 1) Your sound chip is not properly supported by whatever kernel you're
> using,
>   or

I now listed my soundcard driver (maestro3) in /etc/modules
Strange thing is that previously I'm pretty sure that it got loaded 
automatically by the Debian boot process. Does debian have something 
like redhat's kudzu that recognizes hardware changes or do I always need 
to list the drivers in /etc/modules?


> 2) You don't have the correct modules installed
>   or

maestro3 is now installed and also ac97_codec and soundcore. This seems
OK, because these modules also get loaded in Fedora ( I decided to drop 
Fedora and now go for Debian)

> 3) You're running a desktop environment like KDE or Gnome which expects
> a sound daemon like artsd or esd, and that daemon is not running.
>   or

esd now is running. Out of curiosity what fires up esd? (I already did 
some greps in /etc but can't find it)


> 4) Profit?  (that's a "insiders" joke, if you don't get it)
Don't get it :(. (Until yesterday I was using Fedora)


Remaining problem that I have is that if I enable the Gnome Sound Server 
to get sound working under gnome that Rhythmbox is refusing to play 
because /dev/dsp is busy. If I disable the Gnome Sound server, Rhythmbox 
plays fine. However if I start up xmms and also play a file there it 
doesn't work.(I also see this in Fedora) It seems that I can only play 
sound from one source. In windooz the card plays fine with multiple sources.