Configuring sound in Sarge

[Felixk Karpfen <felixk@webone.com.au>]

I would welcome a pointer to relevant configure documentation that will
help to identify and correct the problem on my successfully(?)-installed
Debian Sarge.


The following extracts of the current state of affairs on my box may
help:


,----[ sounds.txt ]-
| Entries from "dmesg".
| -------------------
| i810: SiS 7012 found at IO 0x9000 and 0x9400, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 193
| i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
| i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
| i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
| ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS112 (Unknown)
| i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 6
| 
| Testing the installed setup
| ---------------------------
| 
| play /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav
| playing /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav
| sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy
| 
`----

An attempt to run "xmms" suggested 2 other possible causes - neither of
which seemed more plausible.  Running "ps aux | grep dsp" drew a blank.

All advice on "the next step..."  will be gratefully received.


Felix Karpfen 
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