On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:56, niclas wahlgren <[email protected]> wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 22:45, niclas w <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 'xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers' > error message when starting amarik. > No sound when using amarok(or any other player). > But I hear the startup and shutdown jingle... > > Any ideas whats wrong or how to find whats wrong? > > Using SID. > > > Do you use PulseAudio or ALSA or what? > > If you invoke mplayer on a sound file from the command line, > does it work and what does it say about the audio driver? It > will be something like: > AO: [pulse] > or > AO: [alsa] > > > Cheers, > Kelly Clowers > > > > > I am 'trying' to use ALSA. > > Result of mplayer and lsof:
<snip> So, you are using KDE 3, right? I suspect the problem is arts, it usually was, when I was running KDE. Somewhere in the KDE sound settings there are options to use alsa directly and not start the kde sound server (arts). I would try setting it that way and then restarting, and see if things work. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
