In a prior life, I managed tech support for five years. There are no silly
questions. :-)
- I've tested the speakers using Windows XP. (I dual boot this
ThinkPad)
- Likewise with volume.
- Double-clicking the volume icon pops two error dialogs:
1. The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices
to control. This means either that you don't have the right GStreamer
plugins installed, or that you don't have a sound card configured.
2. No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.
- esd & produced the same error messages as before, even after a
reboot and the 'killall' cycle.
Continued TIA
silly questions to start off but just in case:
1. Your speakers work, right?
2. The volume isn't just turned down or muted is it?
3. Is there a speaker icon in the top right of the screen? Can you double
click and unmute and/or adjust all of the volumes up?
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007, Michael Steigerwald wrote:
That seems to indicate that the daemon is running:
root 5678 0.0 0.0 3088 1444 ? Ss Mar06 0:00
/usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 1 -spawnfd 14
pcs 21426 0.0 0.0 2876 792 pts/0 R+ 08:09 0:00 grep esd
So, esd has started and grabbed the sound card. Good. esd would just die
if there was no sound card free.
but starting manually produced some interesting output:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ esd &
[1] 21600
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find
card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
returned
error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2102:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
Is there a way to tell ALSA (or whoever) what to do about card '0' ?
I'm not clear if these errors are just because esd is already running --
you can't run it twice on the same sound card. You can kill the existing
esd and try again with:
killall esd
ps aux |grep esd (just to check it stopped)
esd &
If esd starts properly, you'll usually hear a bleeping sound over the
speakers.
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