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

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-08-12, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> 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 ) . 

That wasn't it.  I used ps aux |grep various_things to check and esd
wasn't running.

> 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)

I don't recall ever having problems with esd but of course YMMV.

Anyway `modprobe -v -r snd_intel8x0` followed (after a few seconds'
wait) by `modprobe -v snd_intel8x0` fixed it.