ALSA has fallen and can't get up!

[Andy Choens]

On 5/29/05, Lee McLain <lee.mclain at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
>      I still have a problem with my sound, but I have narrowed it down
> to the fact that ALSA isn't working correctly.
>     Here's what I know: 
>      XMMS will only play using the eSound output plugin.
>      MPlayer won't play any sound.
>      Xine does have sound, but I think that it's using eSound, also.
>      Audacity, which I believe uses only ALSA, gives me an error
> message and states that it won't be able to record or playback any
> sound.  It's not lying.
>      This all happened a couple of days ago after I performed an
> update via synaptic on some packages.  Unfortunately, I don't remember
> what the packages were.  I just know that my sound isn't working
> correctly anymore.  Before the update, all sound worked correctly.
>      Is there someone out there that has some experience
> troubleshooting sound problems on Hoary?  I am running Hoary on my new
> Inspiron 6000 laptop.
> 
> Thanks,
> Lee
> 
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I don't really know here, but since nobody else has said anything I'll
throw my 2 cents into the fire.  ESD uses ALSA.  Thus, ALSA works on
your computer.  There must be a comfig mes up on your computer causing
mplayer, etc to not go straight into ALSA.  Try installing the OSS
connection for ALSA and see if you can set-up MPLAYER, etc. to pipe
through that.  It's not the ideal solution, but it might get you
going.

--andy