problem with sound on my father's computer

[Jay Goodman]

Ah.  I think there is a little gem of a bug in esd or alsa causing a these
gnome startup freezes with certain soundcards.

I've got a nvidia MPC51 and I've got the problem too. I suspect many
others have it.  It didn't effect me in FC6.

Here's a workaround for the time being.

When gnome 'locks' at startup
1) press CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a console.
2) log into the console and kill the esound server "kill $(pidof esd)"
3) switch back to X/gnome with CTRL-ALT-F7
4) Startup should be continuing as normal
5) goto System->Preferences->Hardware->Sound
6) Choose the "sounds" tab and turn off "enable software sound mixing(ESD)"

This should get you going without gnome sounds for the time being until
there is a fix or a workaround.  I'm looking for a work around and I'll
post back if I can find one.



> Well there's another problem that goes along with this.  If the sound card
> is on within the Bios and my father boots his computer up to Gnome when he
> logs in the icons do not appear.  What might be causing this?  I was
> getting
> a message about too many things being on a serial prot and that 8250
> worked
> too hard.  I pulled out one of the offending items a Windows modem.
>
> Scott
>
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> Subject: Re: problem with sound on my father's computer
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> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:19:22 -0500
> "Scott Berry" <sberry at northlc.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> We are having problems with sounmd on my father's computer.  I see
>> that it looks like a whole bunch of things are using the same memory
>> address.  Here are the items I get when using lspci:
>> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC
>> Interface Bridge (rev 02)
>> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE
>> Controller (rev 02)
>> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA
>> Controller (rev 02)
>> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus
>> Controller (rev 02)
>> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER
>> (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Contro
>> ller (rev 02)
>>
>> What can I do about this?
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>>
> I found out today again that many devices can share the same interrupt
> under linux.  So I don't think this is your problem.
>
> run aplay -lLv to see if there are any sound cards recognized and if
> alsa has defined any aliases.
>
> Then run
> aplay -D hw:0,0 some.wav
> if there is at least one sound card.
>
> If this works, you have a configuration/cabling issue.  Check that the
> sound card you played is the one with speakers.  Then use an
> application like xmms to change the sound to the appropriate driver and
> play a song.
>
> If you have no sound cards, it is possible that the sound is not
> supported by alsa or it is turned off in the bios.
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