no video or sound on debian lenny
 

I had everything working on etch and after lenny things have stopped working. First I did an upgrade and I had the same problem, then I figured if I did a clean install it would be fixed. But I have the same problems. I have posted something similar before, but I unsubscribed and I don't know how to subscribe back

Before I start here's whats in my sources.list

On viewing videos online (youtube, dailymotion etc..) the video loads and only plays (without sound) for a few seconds and then freezes. This happens after I installed the package 'flashplayer-mozilla' using synaptic. Before that with the pre loaded flash player I would get a big 'play button' and the video did not load. On viewing divx vidoes, the video loads but does not play.

Here are my list of plugins:

On viewing videos on my computer, neither vlc, mplayer nor totem work. On vlc the video loads, and is played, but the video does not load up. I am currently trying to fix things after a clean install, but when I had done an upgrade and trying to fix the same problem I had found a temporary way to make vlc work. I havent tried that as yet, since I figure the online and on computer media are rooted from the same problem.

Anyways this is what I had done to fix vlc

Something to do with downgrading and then adding lines to /etc/apt/preferences

and then running command

For sound I found instructions to run 'alsaconf'. Which works temporarily.

I have found a temporary fix! Basically I have to run these steps every time I reboot. Hopefully someone can help me with something permenant

Before anything I followed instructions here.

The fix suggested for vlc is a one time thing though. Even though sound is an issue

Sound being the common issue, I ran
'volume control error' shows up, which I reload at the end
Screen shows up, and I select my sound card > then I press ok to configure snd-atixp and modify /etc/modprobe.d/sound > then I get a message saying that my sound card was configured

back on the command prompt, I run
I dont make any changes here, but I still have to run it in order for the sound and video to work. Don't know why but it works. Then I just close the window

Now everything works: divx, flash, sound, movie player

On restart: no sound, no divx or flash, and movieplayer plays video in slow motion

Once you have rebooted and got the sound working again type this at the console:
That should make your sound work the next time you reboot.
You need to have the package alsa-utils installed.
Cheers,
jdk

alsactl store did not work. Figured that is what you meant. I found another forum suggesting the same thing, and then requiring to type alsa restore on every reboot. The final solution was to add the alsa restore line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. I did not try that since alsa restore did not work either.

I did find that I have two sound devices detected before I perform alsaconf and alsamixer. And once run it is restored I am left with the correct sound card. I had felt that this was my main problem. The other sound device was my modem. Even though I could not figure out how to remove, I did however figure out how to blacklist it

edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
and enter the lines
Problem is not resolved

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...71#post3406571

I had the same problem after I installed my webcam and skype. The links in the linked post led me to the answer.

I still couldn't get it to work.

The links talk about setting the order on /etc/modprobe.conf: -
On the other hand I did discover that my pc speaker was loading first on /proc/asound/cards. ON changing the order it was resolved to this on reboot
On doing alsaconf and alsamixer, it then looked like
So with my working sound, pc speaker and my modem sound don't exist. Any way I could maintain that on every reboot

Even though there are no changes when I have to start up my sound on every reboot. I did see some errors and warnings after making the changes above.

atiixp codec read timeout

and another warning mentioned something about not having /etc/modprobe.d/! even though /etc/modprobe.conf exists