On Fri,26.Jun.09, 21:24:42, Paul E Condon wrote: > > * make sure the sound channel levels are up and unmuted (using alsamixer), > I not sure. alsamixer display did not look familiar and it was not at all clear what the > iconic display was indicating. Further I wasn't able to change the appearance of the > display by clicking of any of the icons/features... How should one start alsomixer? > Command line? click on an Icon that I have not found? How? With <left> <right> you switch between channels. <up> <down> will adjust the sound levels and <m> will mute/unmute the respective channel (it will show [OO] if it's active and [MM] if it's muted). If you're still not sure everything is ok try alsamixergui. > * make sure arts and esound are not running, > How? Do they appear in the ps -ef display if they are running? They were neither in > that display. But is that how to 'make sure'? Please post the output of ps aux | egrep -i 'arts|esd' > * make sure no OSS modules are loaded, > The string 'OSS' does not appear in the output of lsmod. Is that sufficient? Or do > these OSS modules have individual names that should be searched for? Please post the output of lsmod | grep oss > * check whether the command > cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp > works for root. > What should this command do? Make a noise? Blink a light? What? In fact it does nothing > for about 5seconds and then terminates with the error message: > "cat: write error: No space left on device" > Is this behavior what is meant by 'working'? Likely, not, IMHO, but what should be > done about it? Uhh, that's a bug in the release notes (I'll report as soon as I can come up with a patch), you can't have /dev/dsp if you don't have oss modules loaded. Try this instead: speaker-test -c2 -l1 You should hear a "whush" (I don't know how to describe "pink sound" in english) coming from the left speaker, than the right and then it will stop. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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