[ltp] Sound on 560X w/Debian Woody

[Aaron J. Enright]

Hey there: 
Forgive me if this is a double-posting, but I just found this still 
swimming in my outbox a few hours after I originally sent it.  Someday 
I'll master this new-fangled email thing.

-a

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Hello, fellow ltp-ers.
 
A while back I installed Woody on my 560X and loved it from first boot.  
Just last night I reinstalled it (wanted to change around my partition 
table a bit) and for the life of me I can't get the sound working 
correctly again.  It was working fine before, but, like a fool, I didn't 
document my every move while configuring and installing it back then and 
am paying the price now.

When I use sndconfig I am picking the soundblaster card with the following 
settings:
I/O port: 0x220
IRQ: 5
DMA: 1
These are the settings I used in my Red Hat days, and they worked fine.
Under Woody, and with these settings, the sample soundfile ("Hello, this 
is Linus Torvalds...") plays fine.  Alas, I get the following error 
message when I try using mpg321 to play an mp3:
"libao - OSS cannot set rate to 44100
Can't find a suitable libao driver (is device in use?)"
and when I try playing an mp3 under mp3blaster it plays at half speed.

I remember having these problems before and overcoming them, but, as 
previously mentioned, I wasn't wise enough to document it for myself.

Has anyone a solution, hints towards one, or encouraging words?

Thanks a bunch.
 
solidarity
-aaron
 
 

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