Stephen Gran wrote: > > I have a machine based on a Gigabyte GA-7ZX. It has a 1.2 Ghz AMD and > > 512Mb. I have managed to establish that the sound chip on the board > > requires the es1371 module, and this I selected at installation time, > > and it duly appears in /etc/modules. > > > > This is where the problem arises. If the module is left in the > > /etc/modules file, then my Gnome desktop locks up solid and the only way > > out is to pull the power lead out of the back of the box! If es1371 is > > commented-out then Gnome runs perfectly, but in absolute silence. > > > > I have had sound running fine on two other boxes with different sound > > chips, so I am reasonably sure that my method is good in principle, but > > I cannot get it to work in with particular combination. Hopefully > > someone else has encountered, and solved, what I clearly cannot. > > > > My only requirement is that the solution does not go outside "stable". I > > am finding Linux a big enough challange without bringing in > > "testing/unstable/sid" into the equation
> Do you use kdm/gdm? If you can get to a terminal, try playing music > outside of the Gnome environment to isolate the problem - I seem to > recall several people on this list having sound problems in the past few > months with Gnome, although I don't remeber why. If you can play sound > from the terminal, then it _will_ work, just a question of tweaking > Gnome. OK - I am up for this! Unfortunatly I do not know how. I can think of no occassion when I have tried to get sound from a command line program. Can anyone tell me a command line program that I can install to test to see if the sound module is OK. A CD player or just an exotic type of beep will do! Keith -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Keith O'Connell | "That which does not kill Maidstone, Kent (UK) | us, usually still hurts. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | That's just life, I'm afraid"
