On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:09:35PM +1000, Norman Gaywood wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:10:52PM +1000, Norman Gaywood wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:03:13AM +0200, Schlueri wrote: > > > Am Mittwoch, den 15.06.2005, 14:05 +1000 schrieb Norman Gaywood: > > > > I have a Dell 610 laptop and I can't get the sound to work with > > > > system-config-soundcard. > > > > > I've had exactly the same problem on brand new Dell Inspirion 9300. Open > > > gnome-mixer or alsamixer an enable "external amp" solve my problem. > > > Before this only the headphone jack working. :-) > > > > Ha! Brillant. That works for me as well. Thanks very much. > > I spoke too soon. The test sound works with system-config-soundcard > > However, any other attempt to get sound seems to fail: > > $ play info.wav > sox: Unable to reset OSS driver. Possibly accessing an invalid file/device Doh, I'm an idiot. Rebooting seems to have fixed my problem. All my rmmod and insmod commands must have got things confused. I am happily playing sounds now. Don't tell me I have to start thinking more like a windows user. -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
