Re: woody xmms problems
-- Mike Pfleger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Tuesday, 01 October 2002, 11:10 AM -0700): So I've discovered a new problem in my latest Woody installation. It seems that xmms can't play audio cds (I have the correct plugins to the best of my knowledge; libcdread.so and libcdaudio.so) How do you try and have it play the CDs? Since you didn't specify this information, here's what I do to play them: 1. DO NOT mount the audio cd (you'll get an error, anyways 2. In XMMS, do a CTRL-L (or use the menu to specify a Location), and type /cdrom and that's it. and also insists on using OSS as it's output plugin. If I try to get it to use ESD, it gives me that error box about making sure nothing is blocking the sound card, blah blah blah. My list searches have been fruitless so far, lots of unrelated problems with soundcards. OSS works just fine, it seems, but I don't think that anything can use ESD. So my output question is this, I suppose; how is OSS able to work, and is it somehow blocking ESD from getting access to the card? Comments? Suggestions? What window manager are you using? Does it load a sound system daemon? I ask, because I had problems in KDE at one point on my wife's computer: it was loading artsd, and I didn't have XMMS configured to use artsd -- and hence it wouldn't play sound. When she had me switch her to blackbox, XMMS worked fine. Also, why do you want to use ESD? Is there some reason outside of XMMS (e.g., desktop sounds, other ESD-dependent sound players)? If you don't need a sound daemon running, then don't bother, and just use XMMS with OSS. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody xmms problems
-- Mike Pfleger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Tuesday, 01 October 2002, 12:03 PM -0700): * Matthew Weier O'Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 2. In XMMS, do a CTRL-L (or use the menu to specify a Location), and type /cdrom and that's it. Do you mean /dev/cdrom, or the mount-point that you'd normally use for mounting a data CD? In my case, my fstab aliases /cdrom (the mount point) to /dev/cdrom (the device); I can actually specify either for a location to XMMS and get it to work. If I point it to /dev/cdrom, it figures out all of the track information, and the counter runs, as though it were playing the CD, but the transport doesn't seem to do anything with the CD, and there's nothing but a faint clicking for the first two seconds of any track. Hmmm... Wierd. It doesn't continue to spin? It's SCSI drive, and all of the relevant SCSI modules are loaded into the kernel, and I can mount and access data CDs till the cows come home. The drive I use is mapped via ide-scsi, and this works fine. I'm wondering... do you have a cable that connects the cd audio output to the soundcard? 'Cause I think you need this for it to work properly. Wait, though -- did you say you *could* listen to CDs with OSS, though? If so, something else is going on... not sure what. What window manager are you using? Does it load a sound system daemon? I ask, because I had problems in KDE at one point on my wife's computer: it was loading artsd, and I didn't have XMMS configured to use artsd -- and hence it wouldn't play sound. When she had me switch her to blackbox, XMMS worked fine. I'm using fluxbox, so essentially I'm using blackbox, I guess. I asked simply to see if the WM was loading a sound daemon -- it's not, if you're using fluxbox. Also, why do you want to use ESD? Other applications, like Gaim, want to use ESD, and can't seem to put anything out to the real world as audio information. Ah. Okay. That makes sense. I use Gaim as well -- but since I don't run ESD and don't care if there's sound output, I never realized it had sound! It seems that ESD always worked in the past. Perhaps it's time to roll a 2.4.x kernel and just go the ALSA route? Does ALSA even support an ES1371 soundcard is another question, I suppose... That's what's on my wife's computer, and I did end up using ALSA. It wasn't exactly trivial to set up -- and I can't remember right now how I did it -- but it IS possible! (said while listening to David Bowie off her computer...) Good luck! Matthew -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmms problems?
fwiw Andrei, I also had some problems with xmms. I was using the Kde arts pluggin. I have since given it up and I don't see any more of the sudden wierdness I was having prior to going back to the oss pluggin. gl On Wednesday 27 June 2001 15:44, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Hi all. Lately I've been experiencing some weird problems on the box. every so often (rather often, like every 5 min or so), the CPU load would increase dramatically for a few seconds, and pretty much the whole box would almost freeze: mouse movement is very incremental, keyboard input is not accepted. This seems to happen when I'm using xmms 1.2.4-5. I have glibc2.2.3, 2.4.5 kernel, X 4.0.3 Any ideas? TIA, Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 -- -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls/TELE: USA-707-442-6579\/A GNU-Debian linux user Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls ICQ: 12741145 If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom!
Re: xmms problems?
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 09:12 pm, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: fwiw Andrei, I also had some problems with xmms. I was using the Kde arts pluggin. I have since given it up and I don't see any more of the sudden wierdness I was having prior to going back to the oss pluggin. That's interesting. I'd heard a lot of rumblings over on the KDE lists that arts was really really buggy in general still. Probably the only such thing in KDE. Anyhow, I'd avoid arts right now until they firm up on those bugs, which could be a while. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xmms problems?
Hi all. Lately I've been experiencing some weird problems on the box. every so often (rather often, like every 5 min or so), the CPU load would increase dramatically for a few seconds, and pretty much the whole box would almost freeze: mouse movement is very incremental, keyboard input is not accepted. This seems to happen when I'm using xmms 1.2.4-5. I have glibc2.2.3, 2.4.5 kernel, X 4.0.3 Any ideas? TIA, Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a street near you.. Ford Exterminator. -- Andrei Ivanov http://arshes.dyndns.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12402354 --
xmms problems
Ello does somebody know why xmms is not working? when i run it, it says: Segmentation Fault You've propably found a bug, please submit it bla bla ;] i'm using debian unstable and sndconfig doesn't detect my sb 16 vibra... but when i echo sb /etc/modules it works... ...:: [ pReJkEr ] ::... ...:: [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] ::... ...:: [ http://www.aaocg.prv.pl ] ::...
