lost all sound

[Bill Walton]

Hi H.S.,

H.S. wrote:
>
> Did you face sound problem when Firefox was running? In
> other words, did sound work with Firefox not running when
> it was installed?

If I understand your question correctly, yes.  Sound was working, and
_still_ seems to work properly outside of FireFox; both versions 2 & 3.  In
V3 it worked a little.  In V2 it's not working at all.  The 'working'
statements are made in the context of my Rails app which is using sound.js.
I still get audio on YouTube, for example, with FF2.  The Rails app is
calling Sound.play on 3 separate .wav files.  One file made noise on V3.
Now none do.  They're all playable on ubuntu's built-in music player.  All
make noise when I run the Rails app on Windows and access via FF2 on
Windows.

> Next, please post the output of the following commands:

> $> aplay -l

wildbill at ubuntu-desktop:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel ICH5]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: ICH5 [Intel ICH5], device 4: Intel ICH - IEC958 [Intel ICH5 -
IEC958]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

> $> aplay -L

wildbill at ubuntu-desktop:~$ aplay -L
default:CARD=ICH5
    Intel ICH5, Intel ICH5
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=ICH5,DEV=0
    Intel ICH5, Intel ICH5
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=ICH5,DEV=0
    Intel ICH5, Intel ICH5
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=ICH5,DEV=0
    Intel ICH5, Intel ICH5
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=ICH5,DEV=0
    Intel ICH5, Intel ICH5
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=ICH5,DEV=0
    Intel ICH5, Intel ICH5
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)

> Finally, what is the desired output on your system (external
> speakers, headphones, etc.)?

Excellent question.  I hadn't even considered it.  DOH ;-p

The target client is a Windows-based PC; servers will run on linux.  Using
javascript, I need to output three separate sounds to the PC's speaker:
beep, burp, and shoosh we'll call them.  I've been using headphones without
snapping to the fact that that's not even the right target.

Any pointers would be very much appreciated.  Links especially so.


TIA,
Bill