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Re: xmms doesn't work well with alsa



Hi,

I had problems using xmms myself with alsa.
Try alsamixer instead and get free from xmms bugs.
cheers
bkw

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:34:43 +0100
Stephan Seitz <nur-ab-sal@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I have a Soundblaster Live and didn't have any problems with alsa
> until rc3.
> 
> I'm using xmms with the xmms-alsa output plugin. Since rc3 xmms
> segfaults sometimes with the message:
> 
> ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:292:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS
> failed: Nicht genügend Hauptspeicher verfügbar
> Unable to install hw params
> Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x23e5d)!
> Segmentation fault
> 
> "Nicht genügend Hauptspeicher verfügbar" means "not enough memory",
> the main memory, but I have 768 MB physical memory and about 600 MB
> swap. That shoud be enough.
> 
> Switching to the oss output plugin xmms doesn't crash but it skips
> sometimes songs or skips part of them. xmms produces the messages:
> 
> ** WARNING **: SNDCTL_DSP_SPEED ioctl failed: Nicht genügend
> Hauptspeicher verfügbar
> ** WARNING **: SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT ioctl failed: Nicht genügend
> Hauptspeicher verfügbar
> 
> I can reproduce the errors with ogg123 using alsa09 or oss output
> sometimes, but much less than using xmms. alsaplayer doesn't have any
> problems (*knock on wood*).
> 
> Switching back to 0.9.0rc1+2 solves the problem for days, but then it
> started again. Since then, there was a new alsa package, so I tried
> 0.9.0rc3-0.3 (updated all alsa and libasound packages). It doesn't
> solve the problem. I don't see any reasons why this error occurs.
> The systems neither had a high load nor was much memory used (values
> from xosview).
> 
> Does somebody have the same problems? What could this be?
> 
> The system ist Debian/Testing.
> 
> Shade and sweet water!
> 
> 	Stephan
> 
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