Re: no sound from alsa

Majors, Jason wrote:
>>Do you get *any* error when trying to play a file in xmms?
>>for ex, do you get a window telling the audio card is busy.
>
>
> No. It goes along just fine. If I have esd running and alsa selected as
> the output for xmms, I get that error.
>

Try this as root:

Close your applications using the sound card

~$ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils stop
~$ rm /var/lib/alsa/asound.state
~$ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start

Now try xmms and see if sound works.

/ks


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