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<font face="Arial">Hi. In an attempt to get my very old sony PCG-747
vaio laptop working as a network mpd music server I have come across a
stumbling block, can't get alsa to behave and produce sound. Hardy
Heron "auto" detected the chip and alsamixer shows that </font><font face="Arial">the onboard soundchip </font><font face="Arial">ensoniq
ES1879 has been correctly identified. When I play a track with mpd mpc
all i get is a hissing in the vague rhythm of the track i expected to
hear.<br>
<br>
This is the first incarnation of ubuntu that has "auto-detected" the
chip on this machine and I have had sound running before by vague
recollection of manually loading an earlier version of the alsa sound
module so i tried:<br>
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sudo modprobe -r snd-es18xx<br>
</font><font face="Arial">sudo modprobe snd-es1688<br>
sudo alsa force-reload<br>
<br>
the verbose shows the snd-es18xx module being unloaded and then the
snd-es1688 being loaded. I then do:<br>
<br>
alsamixer<br>
<br>
which spits o</font><font face="Arial">ut:<em> alsamixer</em>: <em>function
snd_ctl_open</em> failed for default: No such file or directory<br>
instead of running the mixer, a common error hear.<br>
<br>
Is there anyway to experiment with different alsa sound modules or are
things so automated now that this is a lost cause. Is there also
anything I might try to get the snd-es18xx (which in theory should have
been the right choice anyway) module working without having to muck
around with trying to load the snd-es1688?<br>
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Any help greatly appreciated,<br>
Rob<br>
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