On Tuesday 25 July 2006 17:41, JeeBee wrote: > I have disabled artsd now in KDE by starting kcontrol -> Sound & > Multimedia -> Sound System -> Unchecked "Enable the sound system". After a > reboot I verified that artsd was not running anymore. > > Still, I do not hear any sound though, when running aplay or play. > > # /etc/init.d/alsasound stop > Shutting down sound driver: /etc/init.d/alsasound: line 163: 2896 > Segmentation fault /sbin/rmmod `echo $line | cut -d ' ' -f 1` ERROR: > Module snd_seq_midi_event is in use by snd_seq_oss > ERROR: Module snd_seq is in use by snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event > ERROR: Module snd_seq_device is in use by snd_seq_oss,snd_seq > ERROR: Module snd_timer is in use by snd_seq > ERROR: Module snd is in use by snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_timer > done Have you got anything plugged into the gameport on the card, that's likely to be using midi? Any OSS app will be using /dev/dsp, and will grab the soundcard, preventing anything else using it. > > When I try again it hangs (also aconnect --removeall hangs then). > > Perhaps this is because the alsa sources 1.0.12.rc1 I installed myself > have overwritten the .rpm files that I had installed before. There might > be version conflicts, I have no clue how to check that. Nor have I. That's something to ask about on the alsa-user list. > > # rpm -qf /etc/init.d/alsasound > file /etc/init.d/alsasound is not owned by any package rpm -q will only find rpms. Alsasound is a shellscript, and hence rpm doesn't know that it exists. I'm running out of ideas. Nigel. btw. Just a kindly word. Try and post your answers at the bottom of the previous post, perhaps also removing unessessary content, as I've done with your Amixer output, and which still available on the previous post. Top posting makes it difficult to follow a thread.