Hi

thinking how to test if the sound is working on my debian unstable 2.6.15 or not, I
installed saytime which is suppostto speak out the time when invoked.
but I am not getting any sound from the speakers which are working when I
boot into WinDos since my system is duel boot.


thanks

************************************************

fred:~# saytime
sox: Failed writing /dev/audio: Unable to reset OSS driver.
Possibly accessing an invalid file/device child process returned a
non-zero status 2
fred:~#


#lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 05)
0000:00:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 05)
0000:00:0d.0 EthHi

try enabling gstreamer in gnome menu>preferences>sound at startup.
also try setting 'esd' for "gstreamer-preferences"

I should have indicated that I only use iceWM and I don't have either kde or gnome installed.

then u need some sound servers enabled for multiple sound instances..hopefully U can even install gstreamer or Jack or whatever.

I assume you verified that /dev/audio exists?

yes it is there, I just want the minimum requierment to be able to hear some sound from some web sites, one is http://www.kiddonet.com/gb/flash/phonics/intro.html and http://www.learningplanet.com/act/fl/aact/index.asp

and realy don't know how all this sound stuff work, I read there is lots of sound file formats, and losts of packages, but the most common are MP3 and MIDI, well, from the address above it may be flash miromedia file but I really don't know how to approch this.

when I go to the links above I get popups saying
This Activity needs Shockwave Flash version 4 or higher
You can download it from http://www.macromedia.com

installed both flashplugin-nonfree and libflash-mozplugin to be able to display and listen but I am not hearing anythig.

Take a look here.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...91#post2560291