On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 09:40:26AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I have just re-installed Wheezy/Testing/Xfce on my production computer. > Te action was caused by a HD failure. The sound was working before the > disaster. > > The problem is that the sound is not working at this point, other that > clicking noises as the system is booting. > > lspci -v as a user gave me (in part): > > 01:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology > ES1938/ES1946/ES1969 Solo-1 Audiodrive (rev 01) Subsystem: ESS > Technology Solo-1 Audio Adapter Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency > 64, IRQ 17 I/O ports at e080 [size=64] > I/O ports at e000 [size=16] > I/O ports at dc00 [size=16] > I/O ports at d880 [size=4] > I/O ports at d800 [size=4] > Capabilities: <access denied> > Kernel driver in use: snd_es1938 > I assume (always dangerous of course) that the next to the last line > is the problem.
No, that just means you didn't run 'lspci -v' as root. > I would appreciate a pointer to the solution. Does alsamixer indicate that it is muted? Does that chipset require firmware (check dmesg for any clues.) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130403214502.GA20126@tal