problem with sound (esound) since a few days

From: Uwe Dippel (udippel_at_uniten.edu.my)
Date: 10/28/04

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:55:29 +0800

    Though I didn't change anything on purpose; just the usual upgrades, I
    lost my sound a few days ago.
    Only today is the time to check it:

    esd doesn't start any longer (it always did):

    $ esd &
    [1] 28425
    $ /dev/dsp: No such device

    Esound is and remains installed:

    # apt-get install esound
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    esound is already the newest version.
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

    Quite a few modules are loaded:

    # lsmod | grep snd
    snd_intel8x0m 20264 0
    snd_intel8x0 36460 0
    snd_ac97_codec 70020 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
    snd_pcm_oss 55048 0
    snd_mixer_oss 20096 1 snd_pcm_oss
    snd_pcm 98728 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
    snd_timer 25668 1 snd_pcm
    snd_page_alloc 11752 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
    gameport 4704 1 snd_intel8x0
    snd_mpu401_uart 7968 1 snd_intel8x0
    snd_rawmidi 25156 1 snd_mpu401_uart
    snd_seq_device 8200 1 snd_rawmidi
    snd 57156 10 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
    soundcore 10336 1 snd

    Finally, the lspci -v gives me:

    0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller:
    Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
    (rev 01)
            Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0139
            Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7 I/O ports at
            d800 [size=256]
            I/O ports at dc40 [size=64]
            Memory at faeff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Memory at
            faeff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50]
            Power Management version 2

    Any help ? 

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