[wplug] SOUND!

[Jeremey Wise]

On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 20:25 -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> A recurring theme at the installfest today was that NOBODY COULD GET THEIR
> SOUND TO WORK!  In fact, 75% of those surveyed had sound problems.  Mine
> are intolerable (for those of you helping me at the installfest -- no, the
> DVD player still does not work) and I would like to fix them.
> 
> The problem is, the documentation on TLDP is out of date -- it emphasizes
> configuring ISA devices -- and other documentation is at best "limited in
> scope."  In particular, the application I'm curious about - the
> "enlightened sound daemon" - seems to have scarcely any docs at all!
> e.g.:
> http://www.fifi.org/doc/esound-common/html/introduction.html
> My impression is that this program is supposed to sit on /dev/dsp and
> accept connections from programs that want to play sound.  The problem,
> there's no documentation telling how to get EsounD and these various
> 'client' programs to hook up, and when i try to, for example, play a DVD,
> it says that the device is in use and can't play sound.  Everything is
> just a big broken-fest, undocumented and nonfunctional.  It's very
> disillusioning and my dreams of someday replacing my windows machine with
> some magical distribution that works are fading away.  Let's face it --
> playing sound is a pretty fundamental feature of modern PCs.
> 
> Barring any further information from the local list, can anyone suggest
> who I should email next?  ESounD doesn't seem to have a support list, alsa
> is just the 'driver' portion, and debian or gnome just seem too distant
> from my project.  But I must admit, I'm going to probably have to take
> this to the Debian list because I am out of steam.

Late to the game but just out of curiosity, what exactly is you issue /
configuration. I see a discussion of how well Linux Sound works with a
vote to yeild little outside of getting a quick pulse. As for helping
you out details are required. 

Example: SuSE 9.1 2.6.5-7.104 alsa-1.0.3-37 on Thinkpad T41 Intel Corp.
82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
Modules:snd snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,
snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,
snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device


Works fine out of the gate. Their are a few issues where some programs
when run (wine or others) will cause the card to stop working but
removing the card and re-detecting it will fix it.



-- 
Thanks,

Jeremey Wise
jeremey.wise at agilysys.com

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