ALC655 Sound problem

[gary]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 10:40 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> gary wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 16:45 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>   I cannot get sound from mplayer, sound in KDE,streaming audio (xmms), 
> >>Sound card detection works but mplayer is mute with the error:-
> >>
> >>Checking audio filter chain for 22050Hz/2ch/s16le 22050Hz/2ch/s16le...
> >>AF_pre: 22050Hz/2ch/s16le
> >>Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
> >>Audio: no sound
> >>
> >>How do you 'open/initialize' a sound device.
> >>The chip is an 'RealTek ALC655 (VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97'
> >>
> >>   Thanks   david
> >>
> > 
> >    Go to mplayer>preferences>audio - try alsa or oss
> >                    -- gary
> > 
> gary,
>    I tried oss before and did not work,now this morning it is,
> still no alsa which is the sound sys I wont working.
> 
>    thanks  david
> 
 Make sure you have all necessary alsa packages - guessing the reboot,
 and sound being reloaded helped. ??  You can also add "ao=alsa to your
 mplayer.config.   --gary