Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-17 Thread Russ Cook
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 13:21:32 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: [...] You were right on all counts. Killing esd restored sound on my system. I don't log in via gdm. I start up in text mode, and run 'startx' to start X11. Gnome comes up with it. Now I need to learn what t

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 13:21:32 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: [...] > You were right on all counts. Killing esd restored sound on > my system. I don't log in via gdm. I start up in text mode, > and run 'startx' to start X11. Gnome comes up with it. Now > I need to learn what the pros and cons are

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-17 Thread Russ Cook
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:51:33 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 16:30:44 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: [...] Trying to run speaker-test gives a series of errors of the form: Alsa lib pcm_dmix.c:866:(snd_pcm_dmix_open)

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:51:33 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 16:30:44 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: [...] >>> Trying to run speaker-test gives a series of errors of the form: >>> Alsa lib pcm_dmix.c:866:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave >>> Playback

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-17 Thread Russ Cook
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 16:30:44 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 14:39:47 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 13:34:00 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: [...] My mothe

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 16:30:44 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 14:39:47 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: >>> Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 13:34:00 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: [...] >>> My motherboard is an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe, with integrate

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-16 Thread Russ Cook
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 14:39:47 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 13:34:00 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: After an upgrade some time ago, my system no longer initializes the sound system. It was posted before that this coul

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 14:39:47 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 13:34:00 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: >> >>> After an upgrade some time ago, my system no longer initializes >>> the sound system. It was posted before that this could be overcome >>> by remov

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-16 Thread Russ Cook
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 13:34:00 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: After an upgrade some time ago, my system no longer initializes the sound system. It was posted before that this could be overcome by removing the alsa modules manually, then running udevtrigger. Currently, whenev

Re: Sound initialization (alsaconf) difficulty

2007-11-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 13:34:00 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > After an upgrade some time ago, my system no longer initializes > the sound system. It was posted before that this could be overcome > by removing the alsa modules manually, then running udevtrigger. > Currently, whenever I reboot, I run a