[olug] Debian Sound Problem

[Russell Monaghan]

  Ok. ARTS isn't running, and I'm using GNOME. The dd command doesn't 
work if GDM is running. I switched to the console and checked alsamixer, 
and it showed my sound card and nothing was muted. And it was 
controlling the master. So then I tried the dd command, and still 
nothing. Then I shutdown GDM, like Shawn suggested, and, magically, if I 
dd again I get the static. But if I then run alsaplayer to play an mp3 
file, it gives me a *mad_open() failed *error. But now I know that once 
GNOME starts up, the /dev/dsp device becomes unavailable. Something 
starts up and blocks the sound device.


Russell


Shawn L Djernes wrote:
> Another thought you may want to try.
>
> Go to the console (CTRL+ALT+1 through 6 will get you there):
> 1. Login as root or a user who can sudo.
> 2. type: /etc/init.d/kdm (or gdm, xdm depending on your login screen for X)
> stop
> 	This should completely stop X and it's children, check this with:
> 		ps ax | grep X
> 	you should get no result.
> 3. type: alsamixer
> 4. Look in the Upper Left corner and see if your sound card is shown, if not
> send me back what you see.
> 5. Look at Master, PCM, and make sure they are turned up (adjust with up and
> down arrow) and mute is not on (no MM below the slider. Toggle with Space
> Bar).
> 6. If that is all good, then lets play a sound:
> 	alsaplayer <soundfile>
> 	If this give you an error about interface or is not installed then:
> 		apt-get install alsaplayer alsaplayer-text
> 	Now try again.
>
> Hope that helped,  sometimes down to the basics works best.  You may want to
> try the DD thing again in this setup with X and artsd out of your way.
>  
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Daniel Linder
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:18 AM
> To: Russell Monaghan
> Cc: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] Debian Sound Problem
>
>
> 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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