Re: Xmms was working now its not - how do I fix/find the problem

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Wathen, Metherion wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> Three days ago I had a working xmms installation,
> last night i wanted to listen to some music mp3's on a cd
> and poof no sound, no error message pop-ups (is there a log I
> can check?), nothing. the song i selected went into the playlist
> but after that nothing happened. This is odd because i haven't
> used the system since the last time i was playing cd's three days ago.
>
> system info - partial
> woody
> P100 32Mb RAM
> tdfx video 16Mb RAM
>
> its cool to cc: me directly
> Any help or pointers will be greatly appreciated.
> tia,
> mw
>
>
>  
I'd do a "ps ax" and look for any sound-looking processes running them 
(old xmms, artsd, etc) and kill them. Or look for a sound daemon that 
should be running but that's not (artsd, etc).

You might try exiting out of X and killing any X-related processes (kdm, 
gdm, xprint, artsd, xinit, etc) if there are still any running, and then 
restarting X and trying xmms again.

You might try a console-based mp3 player, or another X-based one; you 
might want to try it as a different user.

--
Kent