Scratch

which bit did you not understand

JG

It would  take  too long to explain, especially at my typing speed
I suggest you google it but basically it's a credit card sized computer running Linux
Sells for about $25 in your money

JG

It's running Debian squeeze but  please don't ask me about it because I'm totally
clueless
Incidentally I've just got  the sound  working thanks to a member of the Pi forum

JG

I can only send you the post from the Pi forun that I used
I trust the author won't mind
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by Sharks58uk

I have the same issue.

Here's how I fixed half the problem. This worked for me but I really don't know what I'm doing - I'm not familiar with debian or smalltalk so I don't recommend you try this 

I found a script that I assume is written in smalltalk that runs when you run scratch. It's at /usr/bin/scratch
I removed code that *looks like* it's setting up the sound, and added code that sets the sound to use alsa drivers - which I installed on my system when I was trying to get sound to output to the jack rather than the default auto select (I'm using HDMI it a monitor with a separate audio in).

I changed the lines that say:

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    if pulseaudio - - check 2>/dev/null ; then
         VMOPTIONS="$VMOPTIONS -vm-sound-oss"
         if padsp true 2>/dev/null ; then
              WRAPPER=padsp
         fi
    fi


to say this instead

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    #if pulseaudio - - check 2>/dev/null ; then
    #    VMOPTIONS="$VMOPTIONS -vm-sound-oss"
    #     if padsp true 2>/dev/null ; then
    #          WRAPPER=padsp
    #     fi
    #fi

    VMOPTIONS="$VMOPTIONS -vm-sound-alsa"


The # symbols comment out the old code so it's ignored.
Now I can make the cat meow (i.e. scratch plays the silent files) but it still won't load some of the files included in scratch.

Hope this helps, let me know if you find a better solution!