Re: sound?

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Tue May 6 2008, Bob McGowan wrote:
> > I have narrowed it down some. realplayer and xmms DO play sound, Banshee,
> > amarok, and  movieplayer do NOT play sound. when I click on an AVI, totem
> > starts, but locks up. vlc doesn't work either.
>
> Do the /dev/dsp* dev files exist?  Are you using ALSA, as well?
c# ls -l /dev/dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2008-05-05 09:11 /dev/dsp
not sure about ALSA..

# lspci|grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio 
Controller (rev 02)

>
> I had similar issues, with both a desktop and a laptop, running Etch.
>
> What I found in my case was that the file /etc/modprobe.conf existed but
> for some reason had lost the line that made it include the contents of
> /etc/modprobe.d directory.
>
> Adding 'include /etc/modprobe.d' to that file solved my issue, maybe it
> will yours as well.
# ls -l modprobe.conf
ls: cannot access modprobe.conf: No such file or directory
paulandcilla:/etc# 

paulandcilla:/etc/modprobe.d# ls -l
total 80
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4619 2008-04-04 21:41 aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4645 2007-11-17 17:26 aliases.dpkg-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21669 2008-04-06 15:24 alsa-base
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   156 2007-02-26 12:05 alsa-base-blacklist
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2008-05-05 11:24 arch
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     9 2008-05-05 11:24 arch-aliases -> arch/i386
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1406 2007-03-24 14:15 blacklist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   284 2007-03-24 14:15 display_class
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    28 2008-04-16 18:34 i2c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    16 2007-06-03 16:17 libpisock9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    38 2007-01-08 14:41 libsane
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    41 2008-05-05 11:25 
linux-sound-base_noOSS -> /lib/linux-sound-base/noOSS.modprobe.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   115 2007-09-06 18:17 nvidia-kernel-nkc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    21 2008-05-05 12:32 
oss-compat -> /lib/oss-compat/linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   363 2007-03-24 14:15 pnp-hotplug
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    61 2008-05-04 21:52 sound





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