On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:45:14AM +0100, Michael Forstner wrote: > According to my Laptop documentation the sound chip should be an ESS1878. > But modprobing the module snd-card-es18xx doesn't work (can't find the > card) - giving correct parameters doesn't work also. > But the module snd-card-es1688 works! I can configure the mixer and can > listen to AudioCDs. But I can't play any .wav, .mp3, .ogg, etc. files. It > seems the device is "blocked", because I start "mpg123 song.mp3" and I hear > nothing - then after some seconds I terminate the program by pressing ctrl-c > and the program says "Played 0 min and 0 sec".
Maybe you are running some sound-daemon, and the mpg123 tool expects you are using oss (no daemon). Please check the output of: fuser /dev/dsp ps -axu | grep esd That should show if you are running some sound daemon, and/or if something has locked the soundcard. Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nl GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 Web: Maniac.nl Unix-God.[Net|Org] MarkJanssen.[com|net|org|nl] SyConOS.[com|nl]
