Richard Ibbotson wrote:
Check the permissions on your alsa device file. By default this is /dev/dsp(1?). if you do a "ls -l /dev/dsp*" you should see what the permissions are. Mine looks like this:JasonMake sure you have the ogg vorbis and mp3 codecs installed. I hadto install the xmms-vorbis package. They won't work without it. Also, fire up your mixer application (I right click on the soundlevel on the toolbar) and make sure that the PCM volume control is turned up. On my system, the cds would play, but the PCM was not turned up by default. Also make sure you don't have any other applications using your sound card (like a cd player) and check if you have a sound server running by going to Applications/Desktop Preferences/Sound and make sure the "Enable sound server startup" is disabled. Hope this helps.I think it does help a lot but I'm not sure about which direction this is going in...I've installed.... mozilla-plugin-vlc libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 mp3c mp32ogg arson libmp3-info-perl libstring-shellquote-perl libunicode-string-perl mpc vorbisgain id3v2 normalize vcdimagerxmms-madWhat happens now when I start XMMS is that I get the following GTK based error message..." failed to open audio output Alsa 1.2.10 output plugin" What to do next ?
jason@martensjason:~$ ls -l /dev/dsp* crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Nov 9 03:18 /dev/dsp crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Nov 9 03:18 /dev/dsp1If this is the case, you have to either add yourself to the audio group (best option, try man usermod) or change the permissions on the audio device. If you type "groups yourusername" it will list the groups you are currently in.
If you want to change the permissions of the device file (not recommended) you can run "chmod 777 /dev/dsp*" as root. These permissions might be reset when you restart the computer, so this is probably only useful for testing. If this works, you know that it is a permissions problem.
Jason