Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote:
> > I'll crawl back into my KDE and e17 fanboy
> > clubhouse and shut up now.
>
> It would've been better if you would've just shut up right
> from the beginning - or simply post helpful comments. The
> latter would be the preferred option, as far as I'm concerned.
>
> Michael
>
> PS: Does anyone know if Gmane features a troll filter?

touchy, touchy. It's a joke, something humans do on slow news days like 
today. I'm very sorry you didn't appreciate it, but life's like that 
sometimes. It's also rather common on this list, probably because it 
relieves the tedium of the work we do. Here's what I suggest:

go outside, look at the big orange ball in the sky, take a deep breath 
and count to 10. Then realise that humans are quirky, gentoo users even 
more so. If you then re-read my original, and admittedly value-less 
post with questionable humour, you will see that no sane rational 
person should ever have taken it seriously.

Now, onto your actual problem. It is exceptionally hard to even attempt 
to provide a solution unless someone else fixed the exact same problem 
before, as you have not provided any configuration at all and very 
little useful information. Hence your post was as much noise as mine 
was. Nonetheless I shall try, so please provide the following:

1. the output of lspci as it relates to audio so we can see what 
hardware you have
2. What engine does rhythmbox use? gstreamer? If so, do other gstreamer 
apps work correctly on your box?
3. With what options did you compile rhythmbox and gstreamer (if 
applicable)?
4. Lastly, this is out on left field, please confirm that rhythmbox is 
indeed using alsa and not oss

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Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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