[olug] Debian Sound Problem

[Daniel Linder]

On Mon, August 27, 2007 12:51, Russell Monaghan wrote:
>   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. >:|

If you go into KDE and turn off the sound system again, does the "dd"
command produce any static sound or does it still say "device busy"?

Command:
  sudo dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=2 of=/dev/dsp

If that doesn't produce any sound, I would start to suspect that it didn't
detect your sound hardware correctly.

Dan

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