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As you can see here, my laptop's sound card is now physically working... but there seem to be some software problems. On rebooting, there is no sound. Running alsaconf "fixes" ...
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    ALSA/OSS compatibility issues?

    As you can see here, my laptop's sound card is now physically working... but there seem to be some software problems. On rebooting, there is no sound. Running alsaconf "fixes" it (though alsaconf claims not to find any sound cards). It turns out that alsaconf kills all processes that might interfere with it. The culprit process is esd (esound). So manually killing this process "fixes" it as well. I went to my trusty Synaptic, and read that esd is written for Open Sound System which seems to be outdated. However ALSA is supposed to support that anyway... and I did enable all the OSS emulation components while building my kernel. I noticed that there was a libesd-alsa0 package which replaced libesd0, so I installed that, and the problem was gone.

    However, the sound isn't working on various games that use OSS. So I'm wondering if there's some problem with the compatibility layers...
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    Try installing the polypaudio package.
    It is a drop-in replacement for ESD and works better.
    It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
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    ESD shutdown...

    Have tried to shutdown your ESD daemon? I don't used sound daemons because the take complete control of the soundcard and many applications can't output any sound...
    When using Windows, have you ever told "Ehi... do your business?"
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    Re: ESD shutdown...

    Quote Originally Posted by burnit
    Have tried to shutdown your ESD daemon?
    The member listed this as one of the fixes.
    It is a compatiblity issue and ESD is very poor in this aspect.
    It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
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    polypaudio does the trick.
    Thanks a lot!
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