Hi all,

I just installed a fresh install of Debian on my machine, and I have this very weird problem. If I run a song in rhythmbox, it just crashes, after 10 to 50 seconds. The only solution is to run:

alsa force-reload

And this will get it working for another 10 to 50 seconds. I only have installed Google chrome ontop of my base install. So why is Debian not giving me sound? This should be a known problem, and hopefully with a known solution, because it seems the problem is everywhere on the net, but the solution is not...

I wanted to add 1 thing. And that is that I have 2 sound devices installed, both supporting alsa. 1 onboard, 1 pci card.

The strange thing is that only from the pci card, I can hear sound out of the speakers (after replugging the jack in the back off course ). But if, after an alsa force-reload, only the onboard sound card is detected, it does play the whole song, but does not output any sound. Maybe this can help you...?

Who can help me?




Regards, Geert


PS, I have a this sound card: http://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/mai...:Module-au8820
PS2: The PC is a AMD Athlon 3000+ with a rather old sound card... hope this doens't matter

Hey Geert.

What is the output of:

Let's start by setting up your default sound card, first.

Then, we'll try some command line players and see if we can get some results. Don't trust the GUI programs. They are almost always buggy.

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Hi, Thanks you want to help! I am very glad about that, because the computers main function is to play music

the result of cat/asound/cards:

0 [au8820 ]: au8820 - Aureal Vortex au8820
Aureal Vortex au8820 at 0xe6000000 irq 17
1 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
VIA 8237 with ALC658D at 0x1000, irq 22