On Mit, 2003-04-30 at 01:11, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Since recompiling again (2.4.18 SMP) I seem to have progress of sorts. > When starting KDE 3.1.1 I get the following errors: > > New: "Error whilst initialising the sound driver" > SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT failed - invalid argument > > (before it said /dev/dsp didn't exist)
The KDE sound server may be misconfigured (to use a format the dmasound driver doesn't support) or broken. > kscd gives "CD ROM read or access error or no audio disc in drive" > ... ensure permissions are correct etc.... > > (but I can access data CD's) > > XMMS will show WAV file titles in its display which is new but > still won't play them (even without sound as far as I can tell) If you're already trying to use xmms-cdread, you may have to set up SCSI emulation for the CD ROM. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
