Re: sound not working after computer upgrade

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:29:57 -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote:

> On 10/29/10 6:05 PM, Camaleón wrote:

>> 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
>> 
> 
> My permissions match yours.
> 
> esd claims to be running;
> 
> esd
> esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale UNIX socket
> /tmp/.esd/socket
> This socket already exists indicating esd is already running. Exiting...

Hum... what happens if you stop ESD daemon?

Another thing you can try is playing the file with an external app, like 
totem from command line, i.e., "totem /usr/share/sounds/purple/send.wav" 
and see what happens :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón