lost sound ??
 

where the heck is my sound ??

how can I see if my sound driver is proberly installed ??

my xmms halts alomst every time I open it too..

could there be a conflict someplace ??

run lsmod in a console and look after the "sound" entry, your driver should be listed next to it

there is an "sound" in there..

but I don't get any sound when I play music.. in all applications..

Are the volumes pumped up? Run:
aumix
alsamixer
kmix

Do you use alsa or oss? If you have snd- modules you use alsa, sound modules are oss.

You should be getting something like
Do you actually have a sound modules listed?

Its all pumped up.. though I cannot find alsamixer..

apt-get install alsamixer doesn't exist either..

do apt-get install alsamixergui

thank you..

but.. I get this message to many programs I'm trying to load from the shell..

debian:/media# alsamixergui

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Can't open display: :0.0


it is just one of them.. but same messages... can't open :0.0 and some X server thing many times..

know this problem someone ??

This problem is often encoutnered when trying to run X programs from the shell either as root or as user without having properly exited from su.

Be sure you run the program as your regular user, not root!
And if you su-ed to root, simply su-ing back to regular user won't cut it, you have to actually exit the shell.

If u are logged as a normal user start konqueror from the sistem menu->System->More Aplications->Konqueror super userMode and in Konqueror menu->Window->Show terminal and there use that command

function snd_ctl_open failed for default: no such file or directory..

And I DID install it from apt-get..

Try setting it up with running: alsaconf

hmm, suddenly it works fine again..

strange..