sound in Debian

17 Dec 2001 09:26:35 -0700

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if you can cat aduio to the sound card than it is working you can rule
out modules and drivers.  You have a problem with gnome somewhere.  I
would guess it is most likely in esd.  Try stoping esd and start it from
the command line.  if you don't hear the startup tone than you have
problems with esd.  try as root and as user.  if it is only users that
cant play sound than you will need to add them to the audio group in
/etc/group.

I have only used midi along time ago in a galaxy far far away so I am
not sure what to tell you for that, but I would guess that your
permissions problem is the issue.

Bill Warner

On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 06:35, jtannenba wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>=20
> 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=20
> perms are also wrong somewhere.  Only root can
> play CD's.
>=20
> Joe
>=20
> --- "der.hans" <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
> > Am 16. Dec, 2001 schw=E4tzte jtannenba so:
> >=20
> > > I have the sb module, AWE-WAVE module and opl3
> > modules
> >=20
> > I've got
> >=20
> > sb                      7808   1=20
> > 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]
> >=20
> > This is for an SB clone.
> >=20
> > > 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
> >=20
> >=20
> > 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?
> >=20
> > Are you getting any related errors in your log
> > files?
> >=20
> > > cd player and mixer in Gnome won't make a noise.
> > > Gnome is using esd which I believe is esound. Any
> > > other
> > > necessities needed? =20
> >=20
> > 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 ).
> >=20
> > > The way debian gens a modules.conf, I'm not sure
> > it is
> > > 100% correct for the options, etc.
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > /etc/modutils/aliases is used to setup
> > /etc/modules.conf.
> >=20
> > > I am guessing it is ok since on boot up it says=20
> > > "Soundblaster found ok" and "AWE found ok" and
> > "opl13=20
> > > found ok" and cat /dev/sndstat shows the devices.
> >=20
> > Sounds good. Do you have a "silent film" driver
> > installed as well? ;-)
> >=20
> > ciao,
> >=20
> > der.hans
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> > hin...
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