I am having problems setting up ALSA on my Debian box. When I try to play an OGG file using XMMS, XMMS hangs. When I try to play an OGG file using alsaplayer, I get no sound, and alsaplayer moves through the song at 30x. The soundcard is builtin on a Dell Dimension 4550, but it is advertised as a SoundBlaster Live!
I have verified that the volume controls are set correctly in alsamixer. Here is my info: $ cat /etc/debian_version testing/unstable $ uname -r 2.4.20-1-686 $ dpkg -l '*alsa*' | grep ^ii ii alsa-base 0.9.3a-1 ALSA sound driver common files ii alsa-modules-2.4.20-1-686 0.9.2+2 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (drivers) ii alsa-utils 0.9.3-1 Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (utils) ii alsa-xmms 0.9.10-3 ALSA 0.9 output plugin for XMMS ii alsaconf 0.9.3a-1 ALSA configuration generator ii alsaplayer 0.99.75-2 PCM player designed for ALSA ii alsaplayer-alsa 0.99.75-2 PCM player designed for ALSA (ALSA output mo ii alsaplayer-common 0.99.75-2 PCM player designed for ALSA (common files) ii alsaplayer-gtk 0.99.75-2 PCM player designed for ALSA (GTK version) ii gnome-alsamixer 0.9.3-3 ALSA sound mixer for GNOME $ dpkg -l 'kernel-image*' | grep ^ii ii kernel-image-2.4.20-1-686 2.4.20-7 Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on PPr $ ls -l /dev/dsp /dev/mixer crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 14 2002 /dev/dsp crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/mixer $ groups cdrom audio $ lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted snd-mixer-oss 11128 1 (autoclean) snd-emu10k1 58292 1 snd-hwdep 4096 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-pcm 54432 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-page-alloc 4256 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm] snd-timer 12744 0 [snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 31136 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-rawmidi 11776 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd-seq-device 3812 0 [snd-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi] snd-util-mem 1296 0 [snd-emu10k1] snd 27524 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-util-mem] soundcore 3588 3 [snd] input 3296 0 (autoclean) pcmcia_core 39072 0 nfsd 66576 8 (autoclean) parport_pc 20968 1 (autoclean) lp 5888 0 (autoclean) parport 22880 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] nfs 65368 6 (autoclean) lockd 47344 1 (autoclean) [nfsd nfs] sunrpc 59388 1 (autoclean) [nfsd nfs lockd] ide-scsi 7504 0 scsi_mod 88904 1 [ide-scsi] e100 51552 1 rtc 5788 0 (autoclean) ext3 58048 3 (autoclean) jbd 36744 3 (autoclean) [ext3] ide-disk 9920 4 (autoclean) ide-probe-mod 8752 0 (autoclean) ide-mod 151816 4 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-disk ide-probe-mod] unix 13736 220 (autoclean) $ cat /etc/modutils/alsa ### DEBCONF MAGIC # This file was automatically generated by alsa-base's debconf stuff alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore options snd major=116 cards_limit=1 device_mode=0660 device_gid=29 device_uid=0 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-slot-0 snd-slot-0 $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - Sound Blaster Live! Sound Blaster Live! (rev.0) at 0xece0, irq 18 -- Tom Schutter (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Platte River Associates, Inc. (http://www.platte.com) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]