Sound on PPC

[Martin Pitt]

Hi keifer!

Rerouting the mail to ubuntu-users. Please always reply on-list to
allow other people to benefit from the discussion.

Am 2004-09-19 20:41 -0500 schrieb keifer:
> On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 22:26 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > - /dev/dsp exists
> > - the mixer has all channels unmuted and set to a reasonable volume?
> /dev/dsp exists. (there is also a /dev/dsp1). 

This is already a good sign, it means that your sound card has been
properly detected.

> The mixer also has everything unmuted. On a whim, I decided to
> reinstall, and now I have some sound - though that might not be
> related, does anyone know if they uploaded an update to alsa?

Yes, there have been some recent ALSA updates, could be that they are
related to your problem. What exactly do you mean by "reinstall"? The
whole distribution from the same CD, reinstalled only the sound stuff
from network?

> What i mean by some sound, is, if I go to Desktop Preferences > sound,
> and start playing random system events, They play. If I try and play
> rythembox, I get the error "OSS device "/dev/dsp" is already in use by
> another program." and "could not pause playback."

This is a known issue and being worked on:
https://bugzilla.ubuntulinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1349

Thanks for your report!

Martin

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Debian GNU/Linux Developer       http://www.debian.org
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