Sound on sarge

[Peter]

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Paul King wrote:

> 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.

Try fuser -v /dev/dsp

Peter
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