Hiya Patrick,
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:54:55AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> After a recent upgrade of my testing system, some sound apps work
> (xmms, eg) and others (in particular, xfce4-mixer) do not, complaining
> that there is no alsa device. My sound driver - for the ESS maestro
> chip in my laptop - is compiled into the kernel. (As an aside, I
> tried recompiling, with the driver as a module, but 2.4.27 gave errors
> using both gcc-3.3 and gcc-4.0; that's odd, because I've successfully
> compiled it with gcc-3.3 several times before.)
> I installed alsa-utils and ran alsaconf, but it found no PnP, PCI, or legacy
> drivers! (I thought perhaps it didn't like drivers in the kernel, which is
> why I tried to recompile.)
> Any thoughts?
Perhaps you're using OSS in xmms? Try installing xfce4-mixer-oss
(which will remove xfce4-mixer-alsa).
Thank you! That took care of it (and I'm happy with OSS as it works just fine for me.)
Patrick
