On Thursday 28 October 2004 02:55, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Though I didn't change anything on purpose; just the usual upgrades, I > lost my sound a few days ago. > Only today is the time to check it: > > esd doesn't start any longer (it always did): > > $ esd & > [1] 28425 > $ /dev/dsp: No such device > /dev/dsp is the oss sound device, which makes me think esd is configured to use oss. Have you tried configuring esd to use alsa instead? > > Esound is and remains installed: > > # apt-get install esound > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > esound is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > > Quite a few modules are loaded: > > # lsmod | grep snd > snd_intel8x0m 20264 0 > snd_intel8x0 36460 0 > snd_ac97_codec 70020 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0 > snd_pcm_oss 55048 0 > snd_mixer_oss 20096 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_pcm 98728 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss > snd_timer 25668 1 snd_pcm > snd_page_alloc 11752 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm > gameport 4704 1 snd_intel8x0 > snd_mpu401_uart 7968 1 snd_intel8x0 > snd_rawmidi 25156 1 snd_mpu401_uart > snd_seq_device 8200 1 snd_rawmidi > snd 57156 10 > snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_p >cm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore > 10336 1 snd > These are alsa modules, but I notice that you've loaded the pcm oss emulation module, which means using oss should still work. > > Finally, the lspci -v gives me: > > 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: > Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller > (rev 01) > Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0139 > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7 I/O ports at > d800 [size=256] > I/O ports at dc40 [size=64] > Memory at faeff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Memory > at faeff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] > Power Management version 2 > > > Any help ?
Are you using udev or devfs? If udev, is the daemon running? /dev/dsp should get created by udev when you load the snd_pcm_oss module. I don't have a computer running devfs to check, but I would imagine it's largely the same. Hope that helps, Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
