MCP51 AC97 on-board sound worked when I installed Ubuntu, then stopped!

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:20:50 +0100
Adam Funk <a24061 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > The sound worked then.  At some point it stopped working, and now when
> > I run XMMS (for example) I get the "Couldn't open audio / Please check
> > that: Your soundcard is configured properly..." error.
> 
> This is weird.  XMMS and totem won't play sound, but gxine will.  And
> the XFCE4 volume control goes back to zero right after I try to turn
> it up.

Just a guess: try running " killall esd" before using xmms ( make sure
xmms is set to use alsa first ) . Or, see if xmms works with esound set in
the prefs (Options - Preferences - Output ) . 

If you have Gnome system sounds turned on, try turning them off and see if
that helps. Try other combinations by running gstreamer-properties ( I
have ALSA input and autodetect default output, currently )

One day esd will disappear, and we will all be happy again.... ;-)

 ( You might gather I have no love for esound/esd - in fact on warty and
hoary I had /usr/bin/esd set as chmod -x and used dmix / ALSA  exclusively
- dapper seems to work OK, so I haven't fiddled with it on this sound card/
system)

Peter