[olug] Debian Sound Problem

[Russell Monaghan]

  I went into KDE and turned off the sound system, but still nothing. I 
also noticed that there was no sound even if it was enabled under KDE. 
So then I ran that dd command, but it gave the device busy error. 
However, I got a live cd of Debian with GNOME, and the sound worked 
great with that. Go figure. >:|


Daniel Linder wrote:
> On Tue, August 21, 2007 07:33, Russell Monaghan wrote:
>   
>>   Thanks for the links. I checked out both parts, but they didn't seem
>> to help me much.
>> Most tools I've used say it's working, but I still don't have sound. It
>> says the system device or resource is busy, so I thought maybe some
>> other device might be hogging the resources. I played around with that
>> idea a bit, but I didn't get anywhere. I might still try a few things. I
>> was also reading that KDE likes to take over ALSA, and since I have it
>> installed, I checked it out. Normally I use GNOME, so I didn't see how
>> KDE could be doing anything if it wasn't running, but I turned of the
>> sound system under it anyway. Nothing. So I don't know. Sound used to
>> work okay when I first installed Debian, but it seems to have dumped on
>> me.
>>     
>
> In KDE, if you open up the System Settings and go to the "Sound System"
> icon (first page), does it have "Enable the sound system" checked?
> What are the other check boxes on the "General" tab set to? (Networked
> sound, Skip Prevention, and Auto-Susped.
> If you press the "Test Sound" button, does anything come out?
> Did you test the sound with a "Live CD" boot of your distro?  Did that work?
>
> If you pull up a command line and run this:
>   sudo dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=2 of=/dev/dsp
> Do you hear "static" from the speakers, or does it return this error message:
>   dd: opening `/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy
> If so, turn off the sound system in the KDE "Sound System" control panel,
> and re-try.  (When you disable the sound system, KDE kills it's "artsd"
> sound daemon which was keeping the audio devices busy.)
>
> Report back what the status is of these tests.
>
> Dan
>
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