On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:00:25 +0000, Maurits van Rees wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I run Debian sarge. Since I installed the recent security upgrade for
> the 2.6.8 kernel I have problems getting sound out of my machine. I
> reinstalled the previous version of that kernel package again, but
> this did not have the desired effect, so maybe it is not related. (I
> then reinstalled the latest package again.)
>
> When I run a program like ogg123 to play an ogg file it gives an error:
>
> Error: Cannot open device oss.
>
> AFAIK I am using alsa as a wrapper around oss. Audio is not a part
> of my system that I deeply understand. ;) Also the /dev/dsp device
> file is not found, which used to be there.
>
> I was starting to wonder if I had a hardware failure, but then I
> noticed that mplayer did produce sound. So some programs are working
> and some not. Flash in Firefox also doesn't give a sound.
>
> I found out that I can now actually play an ogg file if I start ogg123
> with the option '-d alsa09'. But that's not very handy of course. :)
>
>
> So I'm not quite sure what caused this to change. I didn't see any
> package upgrades in my aptitude log that could be related. I tried
> dpkg-reconfiguring some alsa packages, but that didn't help.
>
> Any ideas about getting this back into a more usable state?
>
> Some info:
>
> $ lsmod | grep snd
> snd_via82xx 29604 0
> snd_ac97_codec 69508 1 snd_via82xx
> snd_pcm 97480 1 snd_via82xx
> snd_timer 25668 1 snd_pcm
> snd_page_alloc 11720 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
> gameport 4736 1 snd_via82xx
> snd_mpu401_uart 8000 1 snd_via82xx
> snd_rawmidi 25316 1 snd_mpu401_uart
> snd_seq_device 8264 1 snd_rawmidi
> snd 57380 7
> snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
> soundcore 10336 1 snd
>
> $ dpkg -l *alsa* | grep ^ii
> ii alsa-base 1.0.8-7 ALSA driver configuration files
> ii alsa-oss 1.0.8-1 ALSA wrapper for OSS applications
> ii alsa-utils 1.0.8-4 ALSA utilities
> ii libsdl1.2debia 1.2.7+1.2.8cvs Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and ALSA
Try to modprobe snd_seq_oss, snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss and check if
that makes any difference. If it does then you can add the relevant
module(s) to /etc/modules.
--
Regards,
Florian
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