Hi, I am having problems getting perminant sound out of my laptop the spec is as follows:
Laptop Adagio (38W2) Same as DELL Inspiron 7500 Purchased June 2001 ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10) maestro: Configuring ESS Maestro 2E found at IO 0x1400 IRQ 7 maestro: subvendor id: 0x001114c0 maestro: not attempting power management. maestro: AC97 Codec detected: v: 0x83847609 caps: 0x6940 pwr: 0xf maestro: 1 channels configured. maestro: version 0.15 time 17:26:57 Sep 23 2001 From the bootup ALSA driver (version 0.9.0rc2) is already running. Setting mixer settings aumix: error opening mixer [FAILED] /etc/modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 maestro $ /sbin/lsmod |grep snd snd-es1968 14316 0 (unused) snd-pcm 55808 0 [snd-es1968] snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-pcm] snd-mpu401-uart 2752 0 [snd-es1968] snd-rawmidi 12864 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 3836 0 [snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 25508 0 [snd-es1968] snd 24804 0 [snd-es1968 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec] soundcore 3780 0 [snd] $ ll /dev/sound total 0 crw------- 1 now3d root 14, 3 Jan 1 1970 dsp crw------- 1 now3d root 14, 0 Jan 1 1970 mixer Other than the funky dates this looks normal, my desktop has same access permissions. I did the following before starting X/KDE [root@np850 root]# service alsa restart Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0rc2): [ OK ] [root@np850 root]# service sound restart Loading sound module (maestro) [ OK ] Loading mixer settings [ OK ] it is wierd that ALSA is just stoping and not restarting!! but anyway, sound played, but it was aobut 20% faster than it should have been. David Bowie suddenly sounded like the BeGees! So I rebooted, started KDE, sound was not working, Xmms was not working etc, i ssh'd in from another machine and did the same commands as before, and its now playing at normal speed again! "There's a star man waiting in the sky..." So I have a rarther strange situation, I'm not sure how to make this perminant, I could put the commands in rc.local, but it seems to only work when I issue the commands afer X/KDE has started. Any ideas? My laptop sound was working fine in 8.1. Best regards JG
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