[K12OSN] no audio in i810 soundcard

Thu May 29 20:22:18 UTC 2008

Hi again! I check in /etc/group and not find any group call "sound", my
question is: I must create this new group? and if I create, how tell him
that owner the sound?
Thanks!

2008/5/29 Almquist Burke <balmquist at mindfirestudios.com>:

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> Ahhh, I'll bet your users were not part of the "sound" group that gives
> them the right to access sound devices. Root can do it no matter what. You
> shouldn't need to change all your files to root, just make them all members
> of the "sound group. Fuse group too for usb sticks.
>
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> On May 29, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Alberto Castillo wrote:
>
>  I SOLVED!!!!!!
>> Thank you my friend because you open my mind!
>> Now I can hear the sounds!!!! mp3s and wavs!!!!
>> Where is the solution?
>> Simply, I make owner the files (mp3 o wav) to the specific user, that the
>> files I try to play are owner root, solution:
>> chown user file.wav (or .mp3).
>> The only thing that I can not solution for the moment is the use of
>> control volume of the graphical session.
>> And other thing: totem can play the sounds, xmms not.
>> Thank you a lot!!!!
>> Alberto
>>
>> 2008/5/29 Alberto Castillo <proyecto.edulin at gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>> 2008/5/29 James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>:
>>
>> Hi Alberto,
>>
>> I have some note in the body of your message below:
>>
>> On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 19:26 -0300, Alberto Castillo wrote:
>> > Hi everybody!
>> > I write from Argentina! so sorry for my bad english, I try to explain
>> > to clear as possible:
>> >
>> > I have many thin clients of same type: "Compaq Deskpro Ex
>> > Microtower" (color white) - Celeron 566 - 64MB RAM - Motherboard Intel
>> > (I supose)
>> >
>> > The trouble is that I do not have sound in the terminals.
>> >
>> > The system: k12EL5.0 (the last).
>> >
>> > The hardware of thin client (from the original service manual):
>> >
>> > Chipset Component         Function
>> > 810e    82810e-DC100 GMCH AGP 2X interface
>> >                           Direct AGP graphics controller
>> >                           SDRAM controller supporting up to 2 PC100
>> > DIMMs
>> >                           66-/100-/133-MHz FSB
>> >             82801AB ICH       PCI bus I/F
>> >                           LPC bus I/F
>> >                           SMBus I/F
>> >                           IDE I/F with UATA/66 support
>> >                           AC '97 controller
>> >                           RTC/CMOS
>> >                           IRQ controller
>> >                           Power management logic
>> >                           USB I/F
>> >                           8259 or I/O APIC interrupt processing
>> >            82802 FWH         Loaded with AMI BIOS
>> > 815     82815 GMCH        AGP 4X interface
>> >                           Direct AGP graphics controller
>> >                           SDRAM controller supporting up to 2 PC133
>> > DIMMs
>> >                           66-/100-/133-MHz FSB
>> >         82801AB ICH       Same as for 810e Chipset
>> >         82802 FWH         Loaded with Compaq BIOS
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I check if in the screen of terminal when boots, detect the sound card
>> > (onboard) and yes:
>> > i810: Intel ICH 82801AA found at IOx0d800 and 0xdc00, MEM 0x0000 and
>> > 0x0000 IRQ 11.
>> >
>> > I check if listen the port 16001 and yes:
>> > - accepting connections on port 16001
>> >
>> > I check if the "-public" option is present in sound.rc and yes:
>> > export ESD_SPAWN_OPTIONS="-public"
>> >                /bin/esd -nobeeps -tcp -port 16001 -as 1 -public &
>>
>> Here's a trick: remove the "-nobeeps" and reboot the clients. Now when
>> the start up ESD you will hear a series of 3 (or 4) beeps rising in
>> pitch. If some clients do this and others do not, the detection of the
>> sound chip is a problem.
>> Ohh my friend!!!
>> I can hear the beeps!!!
>> I supose that the chipset is detected correct shape!!!
>> I boot the terminal in mode shell to can  debug something if I can
>> debug...
>> I supose that still in graphic mode, the user session looks the server
>> sound card, because I still try to play sound and  for example, xmms tells
>> me that or the soundcard is not configured or other application is use this
>> resource (I think that the graphic session looks the sound card of server)
>> and the sound card is blocked.
>> Thank you for your response!!!! I hope can solucionate very soon this
>> problem
>> I still no have sound in the terminal...
>>
>> >
>> > My lts.conf file in part sound:
>> > # enable sound by default
>> >         SOUND              = Y
>> >         # choose either esd or nasd to be the default (esd only on
>> > x86_64)
>> >         SOUND_DAEMON       = "esd"
>> > #        SOUND_DAEMON     = "nasd"
>> >         #RCFILE_0x = sound.rc
>> >
>> >         # default sound volume
>> >         VOLUME             = 75
>>
>> I have found that setting this to about 90 works better. 75 is to low to
>> hear anything.
>> >
>> >         ### For ISA sound cards, you have to specify the module to
>> > use:
>> >        # SMODULE_01       = "sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1"
>> >
>> > In the grafic user in gnome, when I try to open the mixer I have a
>> > error tell me some that "gstreamer no encounter .. no device..",
>> OK. Remember how all this stuff works. Any application you see on the
>> client screen is running on the server hardware. So volume control won't
>> work.
>>
>> > when I play a audio with xmms, hi tell me that the sund is blocked by
>> > other applicattion, when I try to autodetect the sound card from the
>> > client, this modifies the values of volume of my server, and I can
>> > see, I think, the soundcard of my server, that is a i810 too!
>> > In KDE just I have entered, tell me that the sound is no initialize
>> > because I have no premissions...
>>
>> I have had to make sure the /tmp/.esd/socket file existed on the server
>> for most sound stuff to work at all. In fact I had to make a cron job to
>> test and recreate it every hour if it went away for any reason.
>> >
>> > Please somebody can help me?
>> > Thank you a lot!
>> > Cheers from Argentina, sorry for mu bad english!
>>
>> Your English was plenty good enough!
>> >
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