Re: Problems with xmms.
On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 19:37, Steve Juranich wrote:
> > Interesting, I just managed to get sound working last nite with the same
> > audio chipset (as root). I added my normal user to the audio group, logged
> > off and then back on, and sound had then stopped working. I was getting a
> > horrible "sheeet, sheeet, sheeet, sheeet" repititive noise. Is this what
> > you are experiencing?
>
> No, actually. I'm hearing what sounds like a terrible digitization noise.
> There are just some nasty artifacts in the output when I try and listen to an
> MP3 or OGG file. I know that the files are good, because when I listen to
> them on my Rio Volt, they sound fine. Also, they sounded fine a couple of
> weeks ago.
>
> At any rate, I'm seriously considering just building a new kernel, since the
> latest kernel (2.4.19) supposedly supports the via8223 chipset out of the box,
> but this is annoying.
>
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> Stephen W. Juranich sjuranic@ee.washington.edu
> Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
> University of Washington http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli
>
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There appears to be some trouble with alsa-xmms from a couple of
perspectives - an exception on some configurations, and alsa-xmms should
depend on libasound2-dev, which creates an additional symlink to
libasound.so.2... that doesn't already exist in libasound2. Personally,
I think it is odd for a production type package to depend on a
development package, but...
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