Re: sound not working after computer upgrade

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:20:30 -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote:

> On 10/29/10 4:38 PM, Camaleón wrote:

>> Did you reboot?
>> 
>> Yes... I know is not necessary, is just to be sure no other instance in
>> background (flashplayer?) is monopolizing the sound device.
>> 
>> Greetings,
> 
> Did a reboot, still getting this error;
> 
> play /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav ALSA lib
> pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave play soxio:
> Can't open output file `default': cannot open audio device
> 
> alsamixer shows the sound device, which makes this weird

Do you have ESD enabled? If so, try to disable.

Also, recheck your sound device permissions:

sm01@stt008:~$ ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  0 oct 29 07:42 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 oct 29 07:42 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 oct 29 23:56 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 28 oct 29 07:42 pcmC0D4c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116,  1 oct 29 07:42 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 oct 29 07:42 timer

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón