In a prior life, I managed tech support for five years. There are no silly questions. :-)<br><ul><li>I've tested the speakers using Windows XP. (I dual boot this ThinkPad)</li><li>Likewise with volume.</li><li>Double-clicking the volume icon pops two error dialogs:
</li><ol><li>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.</li>
<li>No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.</li></ol><li>esd & produced the same error messages as before, even after a reboot and the 'killall' cycle.<br></li></ul>Continued TIA<br><br>silly questions to start off but just in case:
<br><br>1. Your speakers work, right?<br>2. The volume isn't just turned down or muted is it?<br>3. Is there a speaker icon in the top right of the screen? Can you double<br> click and unmute and/or adjust all of the volumes up?
<br><br>On Wed, 07 Mar 2007, Michael Steigerwald wrote:<br><br>> That seems to indicate that the daemon is running:<br>><br>> root 5678 0.0 0.0 3088 1444 ? Ss Mar06 0:00 /usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 1 -spawnfd 14
<br>> pcs 21426 0.0 0.0 2876 792 pts/0 R+ 08:09 0:00 grep esd<br><br>So, esd has started and grabbed the sound card. Good. esd would just die<br>if there was no sound card free.<br><br>> but starting manually produced some interesting output:
<br>><br>> pcs@ubuntu:~$ esd &<br>> [1] 21600<br>> pcs@ubuntu:~$ ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find<br>> card '0'<br>> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver
<br>> returned error: No such device<br>> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings<br>> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat<br>> returned error: No such device
<br>> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name<br>> ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned<br>> error: No such device<br>> ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
<br>> ALSA lib pcm.c:2102:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default<br>><br>> Is there a way to tell ALSA (or whoever) what to do about card '0' ?<br><br>I'm not clear if these errors are just because esd is already running --
<br>you can't run it twice on the same sound card. You can kill the existing<br>esd and try again with:<br><br> killall esd<br> ps aux |grep esd (just to check it stopped)<br> esd &<br>
<br>If esd starts properly, you'll usually hear a bleeping sound over the<br>speakers.