'mount' my sound card

[Michael Steigerwald]

In a prior life, I managed tech support for five years. There are no silly
questions. :-)

   - I've tested the speakers using Windows XP. (I dual boot this
   ThinkPad)
   - Likewise with volume.
   - Double-clicking the volume icon pops two error dialogs:
      1. The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices
      to control. This means either that you don't have the right GStreamer
      plugins installed, or that you don't have a sound card configured.
      2. No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.
   - esd & produced the same error messages as before, even after a
   reboot and the 'killall' cycle.

Continued TIA

silly questions to start off but just in case:

1. Your speakers work, right?
2. The volume isn't just turned down or muted is it?
3. Is there a speaker icon in the top right of the screen?  Can you double
  click and unmute and/or adjust all of the volumes up?

On Wed, 07 Mar 2007, Michael Steigerwald wrote:

> That seems to indicate that the daemon is running:
>
> root      5678  0.0  0.0   3088  1444 ?        Ss   Mar06   0:00
/usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 1 -spawnfd 14
> pcs      21426  0.0  0.0   2876   792 pts/0    R+   08:09   0:00 grep esd

So, esd has started and grabbed the sound card.  Good.  esd would just die
if there was no sound card free.

> but starting manually produced some interesting output:
>
> pcs at ubuntu:~$ esd &
> [1] 21600
> pcs at ubuntu:~$ ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find
> card '0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
returned
> error: No such device
> ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2102:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
>
> Is there a way to tell ALSA (or whoever) what to do about card '0' ?

I'm not clear if these errors are just because esd is already running --
you can't run it twice on the same sound card.  You can kill the existing
esd and try again with:

       killall esd
       ps aux |grep esd        (just to check it stopped)
       esd &

If esd starts properly, you'll usually hear a bleeping sound over the
speakers.
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