Hi, I've had sound problems recently also. Forgive me if you already know all this stuff. I suggest he do the following. 1. Verify the sound card interrupts, memory addresses, etc are right. Maybe this will mean firing up win to get them. (Is sound fully functional in win?) and make sure the irq's and addresses are included in modules or monolithic kernel. I configured my sound card completely within menuconfig using SuSE cd with no third party stuff. I have vibra16 soundblaster card. (6.1 2.2.10) 2. Try playing the mp3's as root. If they play, then I would suspect permissions. My problem was audio cd's played fine, but I could not play .wav's. Once I spent the extra time configuring the sound card, all worked. I don't really understand why cd's would play but not .wavs, but there you go! I use cdcd to play audio cd's, cdparanoia to rip, bladeenc to encode, and freeamp to play mp3's. Everything works fantastic. I think even the cd player in kde even works with cddb now. Hope this helps. Steve. ------------------------------------ Steve Pauly (281) 496-8041 Global Marine Drilling Co. stevep@linux-shell.net steve.pauly@glm.com gmdcman@mindspring.com On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Kester Clegg wrote:
Mmmm, "fuser -v /dev/dsp" returns nothing? That is, prior to loading an MP3 player but when x11amp, or whatever is loaded, it comes up as occupying the device. I now seem to have stopped the initial error messages, but still nothing works. I would have thought as xaudio comes *advertised* on the box in big letters, it should work? I have all these MP3s, about a gig of them, and I can't listen to them... with anything - and I'm sure it's something in my set up, in particular with /dev/dsp. I read a mail from a debain newslist about having to add yourself to a user group; my /dev/dsp is crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 3 Apr 15 06:14 /dev/dsp but as I said, it works with other wav files. So perhaps it isn't this. I've tried looking everywhere. Someone please help! :-( it's so fustrating because it is so bloody easy in windows. k.
I do not get this. You can play WAVs but x11amp refuses to work? Did you try to play WAVs from X11 as well? Maybe your Window Manager is using some kind of sound output which blocks the sound device. The permissions are set correct, you have read and write permissions for the audio device. Have a look at /var/log/messages, if you can find any error messages after starting x11amp.
Good luck!
LenZ
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