No Sound in Gnome (Please Help)

[carlos]

OK - I rebooted my PC and when it came back to life, I noticed my Gnome sound icon near the clock was muted or "x" out. I thought that was odd. I raised the bar which removed the "x" from the speaker icon near the clock. I then right clicked an MP3 and told XMMS to play it and I got the following error (http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/8165/topenaudiolo5.png).

I checked my sound preferences to make sure nothing stupid was selected...I see the following window (http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/3607/screenshotvolumecontrolpreferenceswu2.png).

Everything looks to be OK however I checked the sound settings as well and see what looks to be normal.

Example (http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2563/screenshotvolumecontrolintelich7alsamixersh1.png).

So according to what I can see, everything seems to be configured correctly and I reboot and still have no sound from Firefox Flash pages like Youtube or Google Video, I also can't play an MP3's on XMMS from the error above but when I right click an MP3 and open with "Movie Player" which is Totem, it plays fine so I know the sound card and cable is all functional. Why is this no longer working? I also have no sound in games like Doom3 and UT2004.

cwilliams@cwilliams:~$ su
Password:
cwilliams:/home/cwilliams# killall -9 esd
esd: no process killed


Please help me as I don't want to reinstall Debian/Gnome for something so stupid but I have asked so many people and can't resolve this.

[whig]

Probably you haven't loaded the kernel module(s). Here are mine:
~ # lsmod | grep snd
snd_pcm_oss 44064 1
snd_mixer_oss 16896 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_emu10k1 122976 2
snd_rawmidi 23840 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_codec 104280 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_ac97_bus 2816 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 81804 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_device 7700 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer 22536 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 8464 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 4480 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 9096 1 snd_emu10k1
snd 55784 9 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi, snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,sn d_hwde
(my sound device is the emu10k1)

[carlos]

I am not sure what I am looking at here. This is what I found...

cwilliams@cwilliams:~$ su
Password:
cwilliams:/home/cwilliams# lsmod | grep snd
snd_intel8x0 30172 1
snd_ac97_codec 83264 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus 2304 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_usb_audio 68224 0
snd_pcm_oss 44224 0
snd_mixer_oss 15904 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 77060 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_ oss
snd_timer 21636 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10024 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_usb_lib 14592 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 22976 1 snd_usb_lib
snd_seq_device 8524 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_hwdep 8836 1 snd_usb_audio
snd 48384 12 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_ oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_rawmidi,sn d_seq_device,snd_hwdep
soundcore 9216 1 snd
usbcore 113664 8 usbhid,usb_storage,snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,pwc,u hci_hcd,ehci_hcd

[whig]

The modules look okay. Determine which sound device totem is using (in the program or "lsof | grep totem") and try to configure the other programs to it.