On Tue May 6 2008, Bob McGowan wrote: > > I have narrowed it down some. realplayer and xmms DO play sound, Banshee, > > amarok, and movieplayer do NOT play sound. when I click on an AVI, totem > > starts, but locks up. vlc doesn't work either. > > Do the /dev/dsp* dev files exist? Are you using ALSA, as well? c# ls -l /dev/dsp crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2008-05-05 09:11 /dev/dsp not sure about ALSA..
# lspci|grep Audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) > > I had similar issues, with both a desktop and a laptop, running Etch. > > What I found in my case was that the file /etc/modprobe.conf existed but > for some reason had lost the line that made it include the contents of > /etc/modprobe.d directory. > > Adding 'include /etc/modprobe.d' to that file solved my issue, maybe it > will yours as well. # ls -l modprobe.conf ls: cannot access modprobe.conf: No such file or directory paulandcilla:/etc# paulandcilla:/etc/modprobe.d# ls -l total 80 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4619 2008-04-04 21:41 aliases -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4645 2007-11-17 17:26 aliases.dpkg-old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21669 2008-04-06 15:24 alsa-base -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156 2007-02-26 12:05 alsa-base-blacklist drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-05-05 11:24 arch lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-05-05 11:24 arch-aliases -> arch/i386 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1406 2007-03-24 14:15 blacklist -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 284 2007-03-24 14:15 display_class -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28 2008-04-16 18:34 i2c -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 2007-06-03 16:17 libpisock9 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38 2007-01-08 14:41 libsane lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 2008-05-05 11:25 linux-sound-base_noOSS -> /lib/linux-sound-base/noOSS.modprobe.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115 2007-09-06 18:17 nvidia-kernel-nkc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2008-05-05 12:32 oss-compat -> /lib/oss-compat/linux -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 363 2007-03-24 14:15 pnp-hotplug -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61 2008-05-04 21:52 sound -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]