Re: Sound stopped working in Sid

On 24 Sep 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:55:36 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I've just discovered that my sound has disappeared following a recent
upgrade in Sid, after working flawlessly for months/years.

I suspected this was due to a problem with udev, which has recently
replaced hotplug here (not necessarily an improvement, I think).

However, "lsmod | grep snd" seems to show that the modules are loaded:

lsmod | grep snd
snd_ens1371 24736 0
snd_rawmidi 23072 1 snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device 7884 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 92708 1 snd_ens1371
gameport 15304 2 snd_ens1371,analog
ac97_bus 2560 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 72388 2 snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 21188 1 snd_pcm
snd 48612 6 snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 7712 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9800 1 snd_pcm

You are missing OSS legacy support.

But aumix says there is an error opening mixer and saytime says:

arcadia:~:$ saytime
sox raw: '/usr/share/saytime/the_time_is.au': sample rate not specified; trying 8kHz
sox stio: Can't open output file '/dev/audio': Permission denied
child process returned a non-zero status 2

So I tried running sayitme as root, and got:

sudo saytime
sox raw: '/usr/share/saytime/the_time_is.au': sample rate not specified; trying 8kHz
sox stio: Failed writing /dev/audio: Unable to reset OSS driver. Possibly accessing an invalid file/device
child process returned a non-zero status 2

Alsaconf detects my sound card (Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI rev 02) and
appears to configure things correctly. Alsamixer seems to show things
correctly as well and there is even a click from the speakers as I
finish.

So I'm not sure what to try next or where to report a bug.

modprobe snd_pcm_oss


Thanks very much; yes, that brings sound back. Presumably I should add
this to /etc/modules to have it start automatically?



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