Hoary New Install - HP dv1000

[Luke Yelavich]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:54:46PM EST, Santiago Erquicia wrote:
> The only problem that I am having is that I don't get any sound.  The
> soundcard is detected but no application can play any sound.  The sound
> card is an AC97 or something like that.  Rhythmbox says "Could not open
> resource for writing". The only thing that I did that could make this
> happen is that I installed some kde packages to have a nice looking skype.
>  Those packages installed the jack sound daemon.  I uninstalled it but
> nothing works.

Have you run alsamixer or checked the GNOME volume control to see if the 
volume is up? I would also try playing a simple .wav file with aplay. 
Usually the aplay command is a good test to see if things are set up 
correctly.

Hope this helps.

Luke