[olug] Debian Sound Problem

[Russell Monaghan]

Yes, I'm dual-booting with WinXP. Sound works fine under that, I don't 
think I've ever had a problem.
When I first installed Debian, it seemed to work okay; I think I got a 
few message boxes, but other than it worked. But recently it just 
stopped working altogether, so I don't know what happened. It doesn't 
work right after I boot, then stop, either. And I think anything I've 
tried to play music hasn't worked. So it seems to have failed across the 
board. =?

Daniel Linder wrote:
> 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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