Problem enabling sound in Ubuntu

[Mike S]

Ravi Kumar wrote:

>On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 12:19:51 -0700, Mike S wrote:
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>>Are you using the ubuntu kernel, or a self compiled kernel?
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>I am using the ubuntu kernel. I installed directly from the Ubuntu CDs
>that I recieved by post (Hoary Hedgehog).
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>>problem I ran into last night, sound worked fine in the ubuntu kernel,
>>ALSA and OSS, but building my own 2.6.12 kernel yeilded no sound.
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>Actually, I am able to successfully load the sound card module
>(snd-azt2320) - I have an ISA based Aztec 2320 chipset sound card -and
>the Ubuntu system sounds are working properly - like the sound you get
>when you first log in. But I face the following problems:
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>1) When I try playing a music file (.ogg) in music player, I get some
>sound but it is distorted beyond recognition.
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>2) When I open Totem video player, It doesn't open and gives the error
>: "Totem could not start up. Resource busy".
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>>Don't know if it will help, but for the time being can
>>you use ESD?
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>How do you enable ESD? Is ESD really needed if I am using Alsa drivers?
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>Ravi
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I am not 100 percent on this but I think part of the system already uses 
esd, since when I renamed it suddenly allowed me to switch to something 
other than ESD in the Multimedia Systems Selector, ofcourse now that I 
am writing that I can think of many other reasons that would work, one 
being that esd doesn't like "playing with others"

Anyways the way that I enabled esd is that I go to the System Menu Drag 
Down to Preferences, and then in that menu choose Multimedia Systems 
Selector.  From there you can choose between whatever sound output you 
want.  Although it is limited to the plugins that gstreamer has.  On a 
default Hoary install I believe that the only plugins are ALSA OSS and 
ESD.  If ESD is not there "aptitude search gstreamer" from the terminal 
will show you all the packages that have gstreamer in the name, and 
among those will be all the gstreamer plugins, and you will be able to 
find the esd one.

Feel free to email me back and tell me how this went or if you need more 
help.

As for the ogg format I have no idea, I have no experience with that 
format, it may be the file, or it may even be the ogg plugin for rhythmbox.

And as to when you open totem and it says resource busy, if this refers 
to audio it sound like you may already have a daemon or something 
running that is locking the /dev/dsp. (or whatever your audio device 
is)  Someone on the list please correct me if I'm wrong, I'd hate to 
give the wrong information.

--Mike S