[olug] Debian Sound Problem
Daniel Linder
dan at linder.org
Sun Aug 5 04:21:44 UTC 2007
On Sat, August 4, 2007 16:17, Russell Monaghan wrote:
> Usually, when I try to play
> music, or a program plays a sound, I get a message box that says
> something like 'Cannot open sound server; will continue using null
> output device.'
Looks like "lspci" sees an audio device:
> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
> (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
And looks like "lsmod" sees some loaded audio drivers:
> snd_intel8x0 30332 2
> snd_ac97_codec 83104 1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_ac97_bus 2400 1 snd_ac97_codec
> snd_pcm_oss 38368 1
> snd_mixer_oss 15200 1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm 68676 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer 20996 1 snd_pcm
> pcspkr 3072 0
> snd 47012 8
> snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> soundcore 9248 2 snd
> snd_page_alloc 9640 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> intel_agp 21148 1
Just a few basic questions:
1: I assume by the path you showed us, you have WinXP installed. Does
sound work under there? (i.e. things setup right and speakers plugged in
correctly.)
2: Has sound ever worked under this install of Linux on this machine?
3: If it has worked, does it work for a while after rebooting and then
die, or does it work for some programs but not others?
Dan
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