[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My heartfelt thanks to Frans and Raffaele. The problem is fixed, kinda.
XMMS still refuses to play mp3s or oggs properly, even those ripped by
myself with Grip. Totem plays both, though, so XMMS is going to be
uninstalled pronto. Shame, really, I like it better than Totem, but
there you are.
Totem, however, is still being rubbish with CDs. Not to worry, Grip
plays them beautifully even if that's not its primary function. The
problem with Grip was as easily solved as turning the volume up with
alsamixer. Duh!
AmÃlia Rodrigues singing fados. Ah, mellowness! :)
Thanks guys,
GermÃn.
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 21:39, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
On Sunday 25 July 2004 16:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 21:09, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
Try this (as root):
Edit the /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf (back them up
first) and remove all sound-related stuff (lines containing
'sound', 'sb', 'synth', 'opl3'). Also remove all sound-related
modules from the kernel with rmmod.
Done.
Now try to insmod the snd-ess1688. If it works it will pull in all
the necessary sound core modules.
Done, with modprobe.
The improvement is tremendous. In XMMS and Totem I can now listen to
mp3s, but they still have glitches. As in, they suddenly skip bits or
"jump a groove" as if they were vinils. The files are all right, I
can play them on Winamp from a Windblows box on my network. Still,
it's infinitely better than before, mp3-wise. XMMS is specially bad,
Totem seems to do better.
If your system is old check the CPU load with 'top'. I would also try
encoding my own mp3: the mp3's you tried may have errors which Windows
had a workaround for.
The weirdness doesn't end, though. Not at all! Audio CDs, which Grip
played beautifully when I had the mess I had before I uninstalled the
OSS modules, are now giving me a hard time. Grip no longer plays them
- the timer counts the seconds as if the track was playing, but there
is no sound. Since I had to change the output plugin from libOSS.so
to libALSA.so in ~/.xmms/config, I thought to do the same for Grip.
ALSA has OSS emulation, just modprobe snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss.
But there doesn't seem to be an option to change the plugin in
~/.grip.
On my system grip brings up KsCD as the player. You can use alsamixer to
raise the volume of the CD channel. Be sure the channel is unmuted (no
'MM' at the top, toggle with the 'm' key).
And CD playing in Totem is worse than mp3s on XMMS. It seems I have
to choose between playing CDs with Grip or mp3s with Totem. :(
Totem plays using the drive's IDE interface which is CPU intensive. With
KsCD digital to analog conversion is done in the CDROM drive and an
ananalog signal is send to the soundcard. In modern systems
manufacturers often don't install the needed analog cable.
If it fails with a 'board not found' or
similar error, you might need to enable the board. You do it this
way:
Note what Raffaele wrote: "If it fails with a 'board not found' or
similar error...." :-)
Install the isapnp package, then type
# pnpdump > isapnp.conf
and edit the isapnp.conf file. Read the file to understand what to
do, it is quite well explained (ask if unclear). In short, pnpdump
scans the ISA bus and presents you with a number of possible
configurations for the board, you need to manually select one by
uncommenting the appropriate lines.
After you are done, run
# isapnp isapnp.conf
you should see messages confirming the board was correctly
configured and enabled. Now try again to insmod snd-ess1688.
If this works, you'll need to configure the /etc/modprobe.preload
to load the ess-1688 at boot, later on that.
If some of the steps fail, send the error messages across. I don't
guarantee it works for you, or that it's the easiest way, but
that's how I manage to make the ESS (or the AZT, also an ISA board)
work after every MDK install.
raffaele
OK, I'm going to remove the sound modules again, install isapnp and
try with that, I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks for all the
info.
GermÃn.
HTH,
-Frans
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Don't give up on xmms.
There is a driver to install to use with alsa oss these are the two I
remember and one of them was not installed for me and once installed it
worked fine!
I'm not sure what repository it came from.
--
Regards
Dave Ashmore
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