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heleos

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From: Maine, USA

Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 678

[UPDATED: pidgin sound problem] No sound at all.

I went home for the weekend, came back and started my computer. Now I have no sound in anything. The only sound I have is a horrible crackling sound whenever a sound file plays. I got a message from kdearts during last bootup that said it can't open the sound device for input or output. I'm using SBLive 5.1 with emu10k1 drivers. Anyone else have this problem?

[edit]: Well... After restarting a couple times, amarok now works, and plays songs without horrible scratching sound....

Unfortunately, pidgin doesn't make sounds, and when I type aplay into terminal, I get an error:

$ aplay
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:866:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
aplay: main:546: audio open error: Device or resource busy

Last edited by heleos (2007-09-04 02:25:41)

heleos

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From: Maine, USA

Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 678

Re: [UPDATED: pidgin sound problem] No sound at all.

Here's my error message on startup:

Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (Device or resource busy)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

trilog

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From: Kuusankoski, Finland

Registered: 2007-08-22

Posts: 19

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Re: [UPDATED: pidgin sound problem] No sound at all.

You should try

aplay -D plug:dmix some.wav

heleos

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From: Maine, USA

Registered: 2007-04-24

Posts: 678

Re: [UPDATED: pidgin sound problem] No sound at all.

I guess I fixed my problem. My bios got reset somehow, and turned on my onboard sound. I don't know if that was the problem or not, but sound works again!