Dapper 6.06 SIS S17012

I appear to have broken the sound on my children's pc. Not sure how I managed it but it really does not work ... and I cannot quite see how to fix it ....

If I boot from a live Ubuntu 6.06 CD it is working so it has to be something logical .....

The only thing I did at more or less the same time that the sound stopped was to install Firefox under Wine to get the Shockwave working. Perhaps these are not related events.

The speaker icon appears just normal and if I launch say streamtuner, all appears to be working but just no sound comes out.

The sliders all appear fine in say alsamixer. The command alsaconf returns a command not found.

So .. I was wondering how to go about fixing this ..... ?

??? I take it the shockwave plugin for (linux) firefox didn't work?

Have you tried uninstalling that firefox/shockwave?
Have you had wine runing stuff before? (Perhaps you need to check the wine sound-driver settings?)

Have you tried aplay -l ?
alsaconf not found is normal - it's not supposed to be there, unless you installed it of course.

Anyway - it sounds like something is claiming the soundcard, preventing alsa from using it - do you get system sounds? The drum-roll in GDM?

aplay -l shows the following

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SI7012 [SiS SI7012], device 0: Intel ICH [SiS SI7012]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I cannot find any support for FF / Linux. The children told me that they tried but only got flash working. I googled and got the idea that the only way round this was to install Windows FF under Wine and get Shockwave installed from there which I did and yet it works ..... under Wine.

Is there another approach you would suggest?

I have no problem in uninstalling FF under Wine but .... erm ... how exactly do you do that?

How do I check the Wine sound driver settings?

Wine does work generally and will run most things.

There are no sounds at all. Nothing, ever.

You are right, macromedia will not supply shockwave for fx-linux.
Ask for it, macromedia have said that it will take "a few thousand requests" before they'd consider porting their player to linux.
http://internet.newsforge.com/articl...&tid=13&tid=31
http://www.petitiononline.com/linuxswp/petition.html

... of course this was a while ago - surely they've received a few million requests by now?

I don't use shockwave since it is a toy - but then, your kids will want a toy

I believe you run wineconf(?) and end up with dialogs to twiddle. It's been a while. I stopped using wine because everything it ran well had an open-source alternative which worked as good or better, and everything I wanted to run didn't go worth a badly darned sock.

aplay is correctly displaying your device - I guess the next step is to check the drivers are loaded ... lsmod | grep snd

Why don't you check your volume meters? Double click on the speaker icon on the taskbar. Maybe they're just muted

Checked the volume meters ... some items off (such as microphone) but the slider was up on Master and it was enabled.

Output of lsmod | grep snd is as follows

snd_intel8x0 33692 3
snd_ac97_codec 93216 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 2304 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 53664 0
snd_mixer_oss 18688 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 89864 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25220 2 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10632 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401 6728 0
snd_mpu401_uart 7808 1 snd_mpu401
snd_rawmidi 25504 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8716 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 55268 14 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,s nd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 10208 1 snd

Yes, if you run winecfg you do have a bundle of settings to play with. Often the trouble is knowing how to play with what .....

Not sure if it helps but I have just run winecfg. There was a short delay before the wine front end appeared during which time the following appeared on screeen...

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:762snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:456snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory

Excellent, that's just the sort of thing we need.
modprobe snd_seq_oss
add "snd_seq_oss" to the file /etc/modules
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1654.html

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine...ay/009437.html
... unfortunately, I can't seem to raise the wine hq web site tonight.

Hopefully the first one will do the trick.