ALC655 Sound problem

[david walcroft]

gary wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 12:28 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> 
>>gary wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 10:40 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>gary wrote:
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>>>>>On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 16:45 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>>>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
> 
> 
Tried kernels back to 1369 and no alsa sound,it has to be perms 
somewhere,I mean 'oss' works why not alsa.

     david