[olug] Debian Sound Problem

[Shawn L Djernes]

Two more ideas for you.

1. When you try to play sound, what device are you sending your audio to.
Some cards show up with both a digital and analog card.  Also you may have
ended up with PulseAudio installed.  I ran into this on a Ubuntu system.
This interesting program, inserts itself into all audio paths. Do the
following to check if it is unstalled.

	dpkg -l | grep pulse
		"lower case L"

This will list packages installed.

2. Next see if the ARTS daemon is running if you are trying to play sound
from within KDE.  If not make sure it is not running.  To do this:

	ps ax | grep arts

Hope that was some help.  


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-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Russell Monaghan
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 12:51 PM
To: dan at linder.org; Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Debian Sound Problem

  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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