Hello Jens, I've just had this problem, following a crash. Sound on my system had been working fine (es1371 compiled into the kernel and using esound) until I got a complete system hang and had to hard reset. On re-boot a lot of errors were found on my /usr partition and I had to manually fsck it, and lots of stuff got trashed. As there was only /usr on that partition I removed all the non-essential packages (but left the configs, as /etc is on a different partition) and re-installed them.
This fixed all the other problems and I had sound, of a sort - it was almost inaudiable and I still got 'no mixer devices' when I tried starting gmix. I then updated an old potato installation I've got on the system, bringing it up to the current sid, and I got the same there. Hmm... This all took a few evenings of work. This morning it (finally) occurred to me to try reverting the gnome-audio and gnome-media packages to older versions, and it finally turned out that if I reverted to gnome-media 1.2.0-2 (an earlier version I had in /var/cache/apt/archives - I keep them for this purpose and tidy them manually, every now and then) gmix worked, and sound is now ok. It appears then, that gnome-media 1.2.0-5 may be broken and I just hadn't called gmix since updating it. When I get on-line I'll have a look a the bug list and report it, if necessary. In hind sight, an awful lot of unnecessary work, but it was good practice;-) I look forward to the inclusion of reversion in dpkg:-) LeeE jens wrote: > > Hi, > I am trying to set up sound. I had it going at one point but that was > some time ago. I have sound compiled into the kernel (via82c686 audio > codec for my Asus K7V board) but still get the 'no mixer devices' > error from GMix. When I do a 'play something.wav' I get no sound but > the system behaves like it is playing (the prompt returns at the > approx right time). I seem to have no /dev/snd (or similar) directory. > Do I need to create this manually (if so how)? Any other suggestions > on how to track this down ? > > Jens > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
