[K12OSN] Sound problems

[Jomegat]

On 08/21/2011 12:49 PM, Jomegat wrote:
> I've been running a K12linux EL-5 64-bit system for three or four years
> now with a pretty good measure of success. However, our teacher has
> requested the ability to use a website that requires sound and mic
> input. So I came in today to see if either of those work. No luck so far.
>
> I read through the thread where Jeff S had trouble with flash and sound,
> and people were talkinga bout making sure aplay works. Well - I guess it
> doesn't.
>
> [root at monarch ~]# aplay
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function
> snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat
> returned error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer
> returned error: No such file or directory
> ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or
> directory
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2184:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> aplay: main:583: audio open error: No such file or directory
>
> I have some pretty old thin clients - I'm sure they're 586's, but can't
> figure out the key sequence to get into the BIOS to check for sure (and
> I don't know how to find that out for a TC). They do have sound
> integrated on the mobo though.

OK - I got into the bios.  The TC's have Intel Celeron's running at 
900MHz with 256MB of RAM.  These are about a decade old.

>
> Any help I could get here would be very much appreciated.
>


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