[K12OSN] sound... still not working

[Tom Wolfe]

.... and to follow that last post up, a few other strange things are going
on:
1. esdplay soundfile.wav  -- pauses as if it's playing something, and
exits normally, but no sound
2. totem -- fails with error "could not open resource for writing"
3. other sound players seem to be playing but no sound. Only the test
sounds from the sound control panel produce any output... and only after I
start up esd on the local workstation.

Regards,
Tom Wolfe

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Tom Wolfe wrote:

> OK, I've gone through the suggestions folks have kindly passed on, and the
> ltsp & K12ltsp sound pages (below) and I'm totally stumped. For example:
> - I've tried from KDE to change the sound settings to enable network sound
> - I've added the -public flag to the /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.sound file,
> etc.
> - I'm using a very common and popular sound card (Ensoniq ES1370 AudioPCI,
> see lspci output below) as suggested
>
> The pages I've used as reference:
> http://www.k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/index.php/WorkstationSound
> http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Sound
>
> lspci on a workstation console (I uncommented the line in lts.conf that
> gives me a terminal with ctrl-alt-F2) produces the following:
> sawback2 at dyyme% cat lspci.txt
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
> 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
> 0000:00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
> 0000:00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
> 0000:00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
> 0000:00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
> 0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
> 0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI]
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200 AGP (rev 03)
>
> Here is the relevant excerpt from lts.conf on the server
> (/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf):
>         # enable sound by default
>         SOUND              = Y
>         # choose either esd or nasd to be the default (esd only on x86_64)
>         SOUND_DAEMON       = "esd"
>         # SOUND_DAEMON     = "nasd"
>
>         # default sound volume
>         VOLUME             = 75
>
> ... I've tried both esd and nasd with kde, gnome, and icewm in all
> combinations. Here's a sample output of esdplay after trying to play a
> sound:
> [root at server Desktop]# esdplay lose.wav
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib conf.c:3961:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3492:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib conf.c:3961:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> [root at server Desktop]#
>
> ... Gnome displays the speaker icon in the top right with a red slash;
> clicking on it brings up an error stating that it can't find any elements
> and/or devices to control
>
> Any helpful tips for me?
>
> I've given up on the "it's easy, it works" and am starting to feel more
> "duh?" than anything.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom Wolfe
>
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