Vik Olliver wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 19:57, Sascha Beaumont wrote: > >>Presuming Debian, you can simply download the alsa-modules-2.4.26-1-686 >>package. > > > OK, got those in. Couldn't find much of a config utility, so I tried > /etc/init.d/alsad start > > Neh, doesn't load modules or anything. I did "modproble snd-via82xx" and > that seemed to load a heap of ALSA modules. Tried "/etc/init.d/alsa > start" and didn't get an error. > > Sound files still play back nearly twice as fast as they should, but now > I don't hear any sound at all! > > I fire up AlsaMixer and noticed that there's a line saying > > Item: Master [Off] > > which I assumed was the culprit, but nothing saying "On" in the Help. > Eventually I figured that the M key might be worth trying, and now I > have Alsa running - with even speedier "Chipmunk" effects. I did try all > available Alsa config options in XMMS, until Blondie's Atomic became too > painful to listen to.
Yea, the M key is for Mute... took me a while to figure that one out I ended up installing gnome-alsamixer and noticed the Mute checkbox was ticked. First stating the obvious, check that XMMS isn't using OSS, you should set it to alsa, or if you use it esound. If its already set to esound, kill esd or install libesd-alsa0 (esound aka "gnome sound daemon" in the gnome settings) and test out XMMS outputting straight to alsa. Lastly if that still doesn't fix the problem have a shot at playing the file with totem or mplayer or alsaplayer instead, it could be a file format issue rather than a sound card issue and an alternate app might play the file properly. Hope that works! Sascha
