Re: problem with sound (esound) since a few days
On Thursday 28 October 2004 02:55, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> Though I didn't change anything on purpose; just the usual upgrades, I
> lost my sound a few days ago.
> Only today is the time to check it:
>
> esd doesn't start any longer (it always did):
>
> $ esd &
> [1] 28425
> $ /dev/dsp: No such device
>
/dev/dsp is the oss sound device, which makes me think esd is configured to
use oss. Have you tried configuring esd to use alsa instead?
>
> Esound is and remains installed:
>
> # apt-get install esound
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> esound is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
>
> Quite a few modules are loaded:
>
> # lsmod | grep snd
> snd_intel8x0m 20264 0
> snd_intel8x0 36460 0
> snd_ac97_codec 70020 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
> snd_pcm_oss 55048 0
> snd_mixer_oss 20096 1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm 98728 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer 25668 1 snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc 11752 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> gameport 4704 1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_mpu401_uart 7968 1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_rawmidi 25156 1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device 8200 1 snd_rawmidi
> snd 57156 10
> snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_p
>cm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore
> 10336 1 snd
>
These are alsa modules, but I notice that you've loaded the pcm oss
emulation module, which means using oss should still work.
>
> Finally, the lspci -v gives me:
>
> 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller:
> Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
> (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0139
> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7 I/O ports at
> d800 [size=256]
> I/O ports at dc40 [size=64]
> Memory at faeff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Memory
> at faeff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50]
> Power Management version 2
>
>
> Any help ?
Are you using udev or devfs? If udev, is the daemon running? /dev/dsp
should get created by udev when you load the snd_pcm_oss module. I don't
have a computer running devfs to check, but I would imagine it's largely
the same.
Hope that helps,
Justin Guerin
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