[PlanetCCRMA] Still no sound ...

Steve Harris S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Mar 11 02:27:02 2004


On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:27:32 -0500, Bruce Elliott wrote:
> Hi, Planet CCRMAnians,
> 
> I joined the planet at the end of last year, and was doing okay until I 
> got to the step of installing Jack.  That didn't work, ALSA stopped 
> working, I got frustrated, and I've just been working with a silent PC 
> for the past few months.
> 
> I'm ready to try again, but I don't know how far back in the process to 
> go.  I've done apt-get dist-upgrade, so I think I'm up-to-date.  Alsa 
> seems to be running, but I get no sound when I try aplay 
> -device="plughw" soundfile.wav.

Have you checked the mixer settings? Hve you ckecked you dont have esd or
similar runngin?

- Steve