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 -- ==================================================== In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. --Yogi Berra
