Sound on sarge

[Paul King]

Instead of using vmware, I rebooted into Debian itself, and found alsa wasn't 
running, even after doing an 
         /etc/init.d/alsa start
The message just afterward suggested that alsa loaded normally; but there was no 
daemon, and nothing new under /var/log/messages or even /var/log/debug. It just 
seemed to silently die. 

Other things I observed was that esd could not run because /dev/dsp was "in use" 
(by what?). A ps -ax showed no esd was in memory, so it was not there before or 
after I invoked it.

Again, xmms freezes if I try to play something.

pjk

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From:           	"Paul King" <pking123-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org>
To:             	tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Date sent:      	Wed, 17 May 2006 09:49:36 -0400
Subject:        	Re: [TLUG]: Sound on sarge
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On 17 May 2006 at 8:52, Lennart Sorensen spaketh these wourdes:

> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:58:42PM -0400, Paul King wrote:
> > I have a feeling I may have broken something. I have been away from Debian for 
> > over a year, and now that I am back, I see a marked improvement in 
> > configurability (this time, I was happy with it after only two tries).
> > 
> > I was trying to configure the sound, and found in the documentation that I have 
> > to add privelaged users to an audio group if I want them to use sound. FIne, but 
> > then I found tha the permissions on /dev/dsp was rw-rw----. I had to change that, 
> > so I did a "chmod 4666" (I now think that setting the SUID bit was too generous), 
> > and the sound worked during that same login.
> 
> They are supposed to be rw-rw---- since they belong to group audio.
> Simply do: adduser username audio, for any user that should have sound
> access.  

I just told you I did that in the above paragraph. That did not bring the sound 
to my account (I also checked /etc/groups, in case you are wondering). Setting 
SUID to /dev/dsp did. And to answer a question stated below, yes, the alsa sound 
server is running.

esd and artsd are installed, but not running to my knowledge (I am running debian 
in console mode under vmware right now). 

> Debian didn't set the permissions the way they were just
> because they thought it would be fun to make life difficult for users.
> 
> > WHen I logged off, then logged back in again, the sound was gone, and seemingly 
> > nothing would bring it back. I was getting an error message about a missing 
> > library (can't recall exactly which one) with a .so.2 extension, but found the 
> > same library name under /usr/lib/xmms/Input with just a .so extension. ALso, xmms 
> > now freezes when attempting to press the "play" button.
> > 
> > Should I yank out xmms and reinstall?
> 
> Don't know.  Does alsamixer work?  Is one of the stupid sound servers
> (artsd and esd) running?
> 
> Len Sorensen
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