On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:06 -0500, Mark C. Allman wrote:
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 00:53 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 10:55 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 03:42 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> > <snip...>
> > > > As an Associate Minister, there's a lot more I could say. But in
the
> > > > end, I'd just ask that you respect my faith - particularly if you
don't
> > > > believe as I do. I will do the same for you, regardless of what you
do
> > > > or do not believe.
> > > >
> > > > Now - can someone please help with getting sound, Pulse Audio or
> > > > otherwise, working on an Intel sound system? I'll pull the specs
on it
> > > > later tonight (it's a fellow associate minister's PC).
We're both at a
> > > > loss as to why it was working up until about a week ago. Now
there's
> > > > nothing sound-wise at all and the card is no longer detected. Has
anyone
> > > > else seen this and have a potential fix? Did some sort of patch come
> > > > through that I missed?
> > >
> > > I think you hijacked the thread. But, I forgive you. Rev. Ric
> >
> > [Sound of Rev. Chris tearing his cloak (in the style of King David)...]
> >
> > Forgive me for I have sinned against this list! I shall release this
> > thread hijack and submit anew with a new subject / thread...
> >
> > <smile...>
>
> <makes sign of benediction> "Go and sin no more."
> I love that one, it says it all. No need to tear a good cloak! Rev. Ric
>
> -
>
This is what I posted recently (thread "Next steps to diagnose missing
sound?"). My Dell XPS 1710 worked fine until about a week or two ago.
I see the sound card using lspci:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
but I'm seeing the error
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1207:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
in the log file scsrun.log generated by the Soundcard Detection applet.
Also, in ~/.xsession-errors I'm seeing:
** (gnome-session:2890): WARNING **: Could not start esd: Failed to
execute child process "/usr/bin/esd" (No such file or directory)
** (gnome-session:2890): WARNING **: Failed to start sound.
I run "yum whatprovides esd" and I get nothing. It's the esound daemon,
but why I need it and where it comes from is, as of now, TBD. Why do I
need this and when did I start needing it is also TBD. I have
esd-config, but no esd!
Do you have any of the following installed?
audiofile
esound-devel
esound-libs
pulseaudio
pulseaudio-esound-compat
xine-lib-extras
I have a system with all of the above installed and sound is working.
I'm going to double-check my friend's system and make sure he has them
as well. Perhaps one of these is a dependent package and is missing or
has some other sort of problem.
Cheers,
Chris
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