On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 02:06 -0700, Tod Merley wrote: > Did a "locate sound" (you have to do an "updatedb" as root first - it > catalogs all of your file names for locate to use then any key will > find). Got a lot so did a "locate sound > locatesound.text" (makes a > big file of the results of the above command called locatesound.text) > and then did a "less locatesound.text" to read the file page by page. > In the list was "/var/lib/alsa/asound.state" an so I did a > "less /var/lib/alsa/asound.state" and found apparently a list of the > ins and outs of my sound system and thier current settings. This > tells me that alsa is how I do sound on the is box (Ubuntu Dapper). I mucked around with this a bit and found /etc/asound.state and ran a few of the alsa utilities but still no joy. All the programs and utilities say everything is fine and the wav files are being played but there's no sound. > Did some googling. The most common comment associated with your "FC5 > sound problem after update" was that they tend to mute the sound after > an update. On Ubuntu I have a sound applett on my button bar in > Gnome. When left clicked I can control volume when right clicked I > can open a "volume control" (center (Volume Control 2.4.12 (Alsa > Mixer))) where I can control the muted or un-muted state of various > audio in's and out's. I check this and it's unmuted. > The second is that they sometimes forget to comple ALSA into the > Kernel. I might consider doing another update. Alaways a risk with > updates though. I might go and try OSS (I've always preferred it, myself) to see if it's in the SW or the HW. > Well, I hope I have done more good than ill here - I hope you do find > it. Please write back and tell us how you are doing with this. Thanks for replying and I will let you know if anything comes of this. -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk
