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Topic: First steps to resolve sound issue?, No sound on Amax laptop

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smohrman

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Posted: Nov. 18 2005,22:51

Hi,

I've loaded DSL on an Amax Impression Elite laptop. Sound is "Ess Maestro2E" according to M$ device manager. Everything LOOKS great! The audio panel loads fine, voume controls all work, but no sound comes out-

Running from Live CD

Tried so far:

Updated from 1.5 to 2.0 RC2
Made sure laptop volume is turned way up.
SOund works under windows

What would be my first steps in troubleshooting the issue?

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tempestuous Offline

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Posted: Nov. 19 2005,00:06

Run "lsmod" to see if the maestro module is loaded. If not, load it manually -
modprobe maestro

Make sure your bios is set for PnP OS = NO.

Run "cat /proc/interrupts" to check for IRQ conflicts.

Play an audio file from the commandline ... say, mpg321.

smohrman

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Posted: Nov. 19 2005,00:20

Tempestuous.....

** Ran "lsmod"- maestro module is loaded.

** bios has no PnP OS setting.

** Ran "cat /proc/interrupts" to check for IRQ conflicts.

No conflicts that I can see...though I'm not totally sure...
The ESS Maestro has it's own interrupt (5).

The results at bottom state:
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
Err: 1
MIS: 0

Does ERR: 1 mean I have an interrupt problem?

One last thing...dumb question, not sure how to run an audio file from the command line. Do I need to download one or are any sound files loaded when the live CD loads? I'm running the live CD with the "toram" parameter and it's fast!

I appreciate your helping a noob :

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smohrman

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Posted: Nov. 19 2005,00:30

I have sound!

I don't know why though...I just opened xmms and clicked play for the heck of it and the classical music stream came right through...

I have re-visted the webpages that have sound I need (an internal LAN monitoring page) and sounds don't play there.

Prob a missing Firefox plug in- Thank you so much for your help. :-}

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