ALC655 Sound problem

[gary]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 12:28 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> gary wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> This is getting weird,after running a .wvm via mplayer theres no sound 
> from oss,then the desktop freezes. I cannot run bash history with 
> up/down keys and needs log out /log in to revive the desktop.
> I think it's a udev problem not giving correct perms,this I know little off.
> 
>     Thanks david
> 
> 
 Try a different kernel - I've gone back to 2.6.13-1.1532  --gary