I've just installed VL on a ageing notebook (Gateway SOLO 2150). I've used alsaconf to set up the sound card and all looks OK. However when I try commands such as "play /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav" no sound comes out of the speaker. Ditto if I try to play a CD using xine. I have checked that the sound is unmuted in using the "alsamixer" command.
some tech details:
:# lspci|grep audio
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs Ectiva EV1938
# cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound
alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371
alias sound-slot-0 snd-ens1371
# lsmod |grep snd
snd_seq_midi 7200 0
snd_seq_dummy 3716 0
snd_seq_oss 32128 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7168 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 48720 6 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 38048 0
snd_mixer_oss 15232 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_ens1371 21664 2
gameport 12296 1 snd_ens1371
snd_rawmidi 20128 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device 7692 5 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 98084 1 snd_ens1371
ac97_bus 2944 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 69764 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 19972 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 45796 15 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 7008 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 8712 1 snd_pcm
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:# ls -l /dev/sound/
total 0
crw-rw--w- 1 root audio 14, 12 2008-06-29 17:35 adsp
crw-rw--w- 1 root audio 14, 4 2008-06-29 17:35 audio
crw-rw--w- 1 root audio 14, 3 2008-06-29 17:35 dsp
crw-rw--w- 1 root audio 14, 0 2008-06-29 17:35 mixer
crw-rw--w- 1 root audio 14, 1 2008-06-29 17:35 sequencer
crw-rw--w- 1 root audio 14, 8 2008-06-29 17:35 sequencer2
Can anybody help here?