[PLUG] Debian & sound

["Jon Nelson" <quincy@linuxnotes.net>]

I am running:

Debian sarge
2.4.23-1-686-smp
libarts1       1.1.4-3
libartsc0      1.1.4-3
esound-common  0.2.29-1
libasound2     0.9.8-2
libasound2-dev 0.9.8-2

I checked all of the above packages for outstanding bugs similar to my
problem and found none.

If I am in the audio group and try to start kde at "checking periferals"
it freezes my whole system.  I can't ssh into or change to another
console.  I have left it for 15 minutes and it never comes back to life.

When I am not in the audio group everything is fine except no sound.  I
have also disabled arts in Control Center -> Sound and Multimedia -> Sound
System, stayed in the audio group and was able to boot.  I also tried from
a console:

    cat /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav > /dev/dsp

which hung my system.

I can't find any errors in my logs.  The only thing that I see which is
error like is:

   i810_rng: RNG not detected

This is from dmesg which is below.

Here is some more ifo that might be useful:

quincy@fred:~$ ls -al /dev/dsp
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Jan 26 14:55 /dev/dsp -> /dev/dsp0
quincy@fred:~$ ls -al /dev/dsp0
crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Jan 26 14:55 /dev/dsp0

Excerpt from lspci:
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio
Controller (rev 02)

>From dmesg:
i810 TCO timer, v0.05: timer margin: 30 sec (0xe460) (nowayout=0)
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 22:36:56 Nov 30 2003
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 02:03.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH4 found at IO 0x9400 and 0x9800, MEM 0xe2800000 and
0xe2000000, IRQ 5
i810: Intel ICH4 mmio at 0xf89a6000 and 0xf89a8000
i810_audio: Primary codec has ID 0
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
i810_audio: Connection 0 with codec id 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ALG32 (ALC650)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, new EID value = 0x05c7
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0, DAC map configured, total channels = 6
i810_rng: RNG not detected

TIA,

Jon
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