Sound on sarge

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:03:17PM -0400, 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. 

ALSA is a driver, not a daemon.  alsa start loads the mixer settings on
boot.

> 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.

lsof might show what has the sound open.

Len Sorensen
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