I'm having trouble getting sound to work correctly on my new
debian lenny install.

For example, sound does not work on the following programs:

firefox
konquer
ephiphany
mplayer
xine
etc, etc, etc.

But it *does* work for

xmms

thats it!

but only if I use "eSound Output Plugin 1.2.11 [libesdout.so]" as my
output plugin. All other plugins do not work.

In addition, when I go to System -> Preferences -> Sound, only ESD -
Enlightened Sound Daemon works for all Sound Playback. Everything
else says:


audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample !
gconfaudiosink profile = music: Could not open audio device for
playback. Device is being used by another application.

(which it isn't)

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Some other random information

~/$ lsof | grep dsp
esd 3537 me 5w CHR 14,3 5482 /dev/dsp

from ps -AFH:

me 3537 3533 0 561 664 0 Feb24 ? 00:00:22 esd -nobeeps

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Also, alsamixer shows 00 under headphones (which is how i'm listening to sound), although theres nothing i can do to make it not be 00.

Any suggestions or tips on how to fix this would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks!

is alsa installed and configured ?

what happens when you run alsaconf

is alsa installed and configured ?

what happens when you run alsaconf

I think you should install Alsa (if it is not installed)

Try

$ su (insert your password)
$ apt-get install alsa alsa-oss oss-compat

note :
alsa (sound driver)
alsa-oss (alsa oss emulation, it redirrect the oss-sound to alsa)
oss-compat (to prevent error "/dev/dsp not found")

don't forget to run :
$ alsamixer

and set the sound volume (don't forget to unmute the sound, press 'm')

I have a problem installing sound too. But after I install oss-compat, it works ! for program which does't support alsa.