I'm still having some sound difficulties on my Debian laptop. I get all the system sounds okay (in gnome when I open and close windows, log in etc it plays the wav files). But following the Linux Sound HOWTO makes me think that there are some problems. The HOWTO suggests that I can cat a wav file to the audio device and hear it play. "cat /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/clicked.wav > /dev/dsp" does not work. It sits there like it's doing something but nothing happens.
ALSA is installed but does not run. I presume that since I have the correct sound driver I don't need ALSA. I messed around a bit with ALSA but couldnt get it to do anything meaningful (like start). I wonder if I actually introduced these problems by installing ALSA in the first place.
In any event, I can play CDs but I can't convince either xine or glame to play sound. When I run xine as a normal user (yes I have run xine-check, what a GREAT utility) I get "main: audio driver probing failed => no audio output". I can still watch the DVD but I don't get any sound. Running xine as a root user I do NOT get that message but still no sound either.
For goodness sake, HELP! Michael.
