I've been happily slogging along getting by with my on-motherboard VIA sound system till this morning when trying to run xmms (which btw has been running fine up last night ) the sound volume was so low as to be nonexistent. Figuring that the audio amp in the speaker box might have blown I tried swapping the speakers out for a pair that was worKing on windows. No change. So I rebooted and then retried by playing xmms. Clicking on play button in xmms I got an error message to the effect that: Please check that: 1. You have the correct output plugin selected. 2. No Other programs is blocking the sound card. 3 Your sound card is configured properly.
Now I had changed the speakers and that's about all. A quick check of audio indicates: ls -l /dev |grep -i audio crw------- 1 root root 14, 4 Aug 30 2002 audio crw------- 1 root root 14, 20 Aug 30 2002 audio1 crw------- 1 root root 14, 7 Aug 30 2002 audioctl
and the modules file shows (both proc/modules and lsmod): Module Size Used by Not tainted emu10k1 68584 0 (autoclean) via82cxxx_audio 24280 9 (autoclean) uart401 8388 0 (autoclean) [via82cxxx_audio] ac97_codec 14568 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1 via82cxxx_audio] sound 73428 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1 via82cxxx_audio uart401] soundcore 6532 17 (autoclean) [emu10k1 via82cxxx_audio sound]
Thinking that I might have inadvertently compromised (destroyed) the VIA when shifting speakers I tried turning it off in the bios and then putting in an "SB Live!" card that I have acquired. Linux rebooting discovers the new hardware and reports configuring it. But after boot completes still no sound.
Any suggestions as to 1. How to discover who if anyone is attached to the sound card/device? 2. how do you replace hardware on a linux system? I've had it in mind to replace the VIA sound with the Sound Blaster but there is more to it thank yanking the hardware and and the old VIA sound modules are still visible ..
thanks for your suggestions.
J.
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