[Hoary] Rhythmbox cannot play music

[Santiago Erquicia]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 21:19 +0000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a latest-Hoary system, upgraded from a Warty install. I am trying
> to play OGG files with Rhythmbox and I get this error when I press Play:
> 
>     Failed to write data to the esound daemon
> 
> Here's my sound card:
> 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
> 
> Appropriate ALSA modules seem to be loaded:
> snd_intel8x0           32352  1
> snd_ac97_codec         74144  1 snd_intel8x0
> snd_pcm_oss            52132  0
> snd_mixer_oss          19680  2 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                94696  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_timer              25060  1 snd_pcm
> snd                    55012  6 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> soundcore              10016  2 snd
> snd_page_alloc          9732  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
> 
> The polypaudio daemon is running as user "mary":
> 
> $ ps aux | grep polypaudio
> mary     12670  0.0  0.6   4668  3212 ?        S    08:09   0:00 /usr/bin/polypaudio
> 
> The gstreamer-properties dialog says that my "Default Sink" for audio is
> the "ESD - Enlightenment Sound Daemon".
> 
> As best I understand it, these settings combined should allow rhythmbox
> to play sound through the polypaudio daemon. What have I missed?
> 
> -Mary
> 
> 

Add this to /etc/hotplug/blacklist:

snd-intel8x0m


One of the latest hotplug updates fixed this though.  I think the
problem is with the internal modem.

Santiago