I switched from etch/gnome to lenny/xfce and no sound.

cat /usr/lib/openoffice/share/gallery/sounds/kongas.wav > /dev/dsp

no sound



~ $ uname -a
Linux Gel-DeskT 2.6.22-3-486 #1 Sun Feb 10 19:36:16 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux


~ $ id
uid=1000(arkadi) gid=1000(arkadi) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),1000(arkadi)

~ $ lspci -v

00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 4720
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18
I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: VIA 82xx Audio
Kernel modules: snd-via82xx

~ $ lsmod | grep snd
snd_via82xx 26392 2
snd_ac97_codec 92580 1 snd_via82xx
ac97_bus 2304 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 38816 0
snd_mixer_oss 15360 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 70152 3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 10120 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 7936 1 snd_via82xx
snd_seq_dummy 3844 0
snd_seq_oss 29184 0
snd_seq_midi 8224 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7040 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 45136 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 20740 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_rawmidi 22688 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device 7820 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd 47076 15 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd _timer,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
gameport 14472 2 snd_via82xx,analog
soundcore 7264 1 snd



output from alsamixer


/proc/asound/version:
│ │====================
│ │Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Thu May 31 09:03:
│ │
│ │/proc/asound/cards:
│ │===================
│ │ 0 [V8235 ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8235
│ │ VIA 8235 with ALC650D at 0xd800, irq 18
│ │
│ │/proc/asound/devices:
│ │=====================
│ │ 0: [ 0] : control
│ │ 1: : sequencer
│ │ 16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
│ │ 17: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
│ │ 24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
25: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture
│ │ 33: : timer
│ │
│ │/proc/asound/oss/devices:
│ │=========================
│ │ 0: [0- 0]: mixer
│ │ 1: : sequencer
│ │ 3: [0- 0]: digital audio
│ │ 4: [0- 0]: digital audio
│ │ 8: : sequencer
│ │ 12: [0- 1]: digital audio
│ │
│ │/proc/asound/timers:
│ │====================
│ │G0: system timer : 4000.000us (10000000 ticks)
│ │P0-0-0: PCM playback 0-0-0 : SLAVE
│ │P0-0-1: PCM capture 0-0-1 : SLAVE

P0-0-2: PCM playback 0-0-2 : SLAVE
│ │P0-0-4: PCM playback 0-0-4 : SLAVE
│ │P0-0-6: PCM playback 0-0-6 : SLAVE
│ │P0-1-0: PCM playback 0-1-0 : SLAVE
│ │P0-1-1: PCM capture 0-1-1 : SLAVE
│ │
│ │/proc/asound/pcm:
│ │=================
│ │00-01: VIA 8235 : VIA 8235 : playback 1 : capture 1
│ │00-00: VIA 8235 : VIA 8235 : playback 4 : capture 1

Thanks to everybody who will decide to reply

You might test if some application is keeping the sounddevices busy, using this command:

HTH --Japser.

Well, can you interpret this output? :

arkadi@Gel-DeskT:~$ sudo lsof -w $( find /dev -group audio )
find: /dev/.static: Permission denied
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
xfce-mcs- 2298 arkadi 5u CHR 116,0 6332 /dev/snd/controlC0
xfce4-mix 2307 arkadi 8u CHR 116,0 6332 /dev/snd/controlC0

Thx

To me that looks o.k.: no 'esd' or 'artsd' blocking in stead of serving sound.

I am not a user of xfce, so not much more ideas, except trying to use aplay to produce a sound. Note that sending a file to /dev/dsp is the oss way of playing sound. Alsa is different, use aplay to test it.

--Japser.