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From: Ghaith Hachem <blacksadness@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not playing...
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:53:46
Message-Id: 4bf052bf0602092148p1fd0b043tefb9415e4a99e3dc@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Sound not playing... by Shawn Singh
1 i have had this problem before is anything else using alsa or oss?
2 like gaim maybe
3 is alsa probably configured?
4 this article in the wiki seemed to solve this problem to me
5 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_sound_mixer_aka_dmix
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8 On 2/10/06, Shawn Singh <callmeshawn@×××××.com> wrote:
9 > Hey all,
10 >
11 > When I try to play music using XMMS a variety of things happen:
12 >
13 > if XMMS is set to use OSS, it complains it can't open the oss driver
14 > the same thing happens if I attempt to use ALSA.
15 >
16 > if I configure XMMS to use ARTS the song appears to play, but I don't
17 > hear any sound.
18 >
19 > I've got the cable plugged in, ;) ... I'm running kernel version
20 > 2.6.15. I've got alsa compiled in...
21 >
22 > I've checked that libALSA.so and libarts.so etc are on the system in
23 > /usr/bin/XMMS...
24 >
25 > Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be happening...
26 >
27 > Oh and I have compiled in support for my SoundBlaster soundcard.
28 >
29 > Thank you,
30 >
31 > Shawn Singh
32 >
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40 Cheers,
41 Ghaith
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