Re: Can't set XMMS audio volume on 8500
sound is pretty complicated, and may not be turned on properly in a
stock kernel. Have you checked whether other apps cna produce sound?
Are you using OSS or ALSA? As the master voume or PCM muted? try
aumix or alsamixer, depending which system you're using, and turn on
everything you find there, then see if xmms produces sound.
try mpg123 some-song-or-other.mp3 -- dow that produce sound?
first steps, they might help...
mp
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 05:39:57AM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> It seems that moving the volume control slider in XMMS on my Mac 8500 has
> no effect.
>
> The GUI shows the volume percentage changing, but the volume of the actual
> sound in my headphones remains unchanged.
>
> I'm not entirely sure the sound is set up right on my 8500. I'm not able
> to get any sound from the built-in speaker. The sound does work from the
> headphone jack. It seems to me that I should have esd running all the time
> but ps doesn't find it. Perhaps someone can point me to a guide to getting
> sound properly configured on a PowerPC Mac linux system.
>
> The 8500 is an "AV" model of Mac. It has quite good quality sound hardware
> built-in, and also has built-in video in/out. It was intended by Apple for
> multimedia production. I find the sound card on my PC to be pretty crappy,
> with noticable noise generated by the sound card both on playback and
> recorded in audio files when I capture sound, but I'm not able to detect
> such noise when I either play or capture sound on my Mac.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Mike
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