On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:09 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:01:00 -0700
> "Christopher A. Williams" <fedoralists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure that this:
>
> > > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1207:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
>
> is the cause of this:
>
> > > 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)
>
Not at all. There is no /usr/bin/esd program! I know it isn't on my
system. That's also what the error message above says ("No such file or
directory"). This is one question I hoped people could offer
suggestions to solve.
> After all, it wouldn't be logical to have a sound daemon running without a
> sound card.
>
> There are a ton of options that can go in /etc/modprobe.conf for sound. For
> example, I set up a laptop a short while ago that required these options:
>
> alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
> options snd-card-0 index=0
> options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba
>
> There are all kinds of other model= options available. One of them is quite
> likely what you need to get your machine going.
>
I've been chatting with someone on AIM, and I just realized that I'm
hearing the little sound it plays when a message arrives. When I run
gnome-sound-properties I can test and get a tone when testing "sound
playback" on the devices tab, but no sounds play from the "sounds tab.
I see "Enable software sound mixing (ESD)" is checked. When I run the
Soundcard Detection applet I also get nothing. But AIM is chiming away.
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