Hi Hans,
Actually, part of the problem was (blush)
I was using the CD drive without the internal
cable. I had to relink dev/cdrom to the correct
drive for audio. Now only midi doesn't work
and the sound events in Gnome doesn't work. The
perms are also wrong somewhere. Only root can
play CD's.
Joe
--- "der.hans" <
PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
> Am 16. Dec, 2001 schwätzte jtannenba so:
>
> > I have the sb module, AWE-WAVE module and opl3
> modules
>
> I've got
>
> sb 7808 1
> sb_lib 32288 0 [sb]
> uart401 6048 0 [sb_lib]
> sound 52428 1 [sb_lib uart401]
> soundcore 3556 5 [sb_lib sound]
> isa-pnp 27336 0 [sb]
>
> This is for an SB clone.
>
> > loaded. loading the above also loaded the
> > soundcore(?) and Oss sound drivers(?). I can cat
> a
> > .wav file
> > and get it to play (cat *.wav>/dev/audio) but, the
>
>
> Weird that .wav works, but other stuff doesn't. I
> presume it's not
> permissions errors because .wav is working and
> you're not getting errors.
> Then again, mp3 and ogg require /dev/dsp, I think.
> Do you have one? Do you
> have perms to write to it?
>
> Are you getting any related errors in your log
> files?
>
> > cd player and mixer in Gnome won't make a noise.
> > Gnome is using esd which I believe is esound. Any
> > other
> > necessities needed?
>
> gnome using esd doesn't mean the cd player is, but
> it should give you an
> error if that's the problem. Try some command line
> apps like ogg123 or
> mpg123. xmms and grip also give decent error
> messages ( except when xmms
> has http probs ).
>
> > The way debian gens a modules.conf, I'm not sure
> it is
> > 100% correct for the options, etc.
>
> I put sb in /etc/modules to make sure it comes up
> when booting. That doesn't
> sound like your prob as the module is loaded.
>
> /etc/modutils/aliases is used to setup
> /etc/modules.conf.
>
> > I am guessing it is ok since on boot up it says
> > "Soundblaster found ok" and "AWE found ok" and
> "opl13
> > found ok" and cat /dev/sndstat shows the devices.
>
> Sounds good. Do you have a "silent film" driver
> installed as well? ;-)
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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