Re: woody xmms problems
-- Mike Pfleger <pfleger@pfleger-precision.com> wrote
(on Tuesday, 01 October 2002, 12:03 PM -0700):
> * Matthew Weier O'Phinney (matthew@weierophinney.net) wrote:
> > 2. In XMMS, do a CTRL-L (or use the menu to specify a "Location"),
> > and type "/cdrom"
> > and that's it.
>
> Do you mean /dev/cdrom, or the mount-point that you'd normally use for
> mounting a data CD?
In my case, my fstab aliases /cdrom (the mount point) to /dev/cdrom (the
device); I can actually specify either for a location to XMMS and get it
to work.
> If I point it to /dev/cdrom, it figures out all of
> the track information, and the counter runs, as though it were playing
> the CD, but the transport doesn't seem to do anything with the CD, and
> there's nothing but a faint clicking for the first two seconds of any
> track.
Hmmm... Wierd. It doesn't continue to spin?
> It's SCSI drive, and all of the relevant SCSI modules are
> loaded into the kernel, and I can mount and access data CDs till the
> cows come home.
The drive I use is mapped via ide-scsi, and this works fine. I'm
wondering... do you have a cable that connects the cd audio output to
the soundcard? 'Cause I think you need this for it to work properly.
Wait, though -- did you say you *could* listen to CDs with OSS, though?
If so, something else is going on... not sure what.
> > What window manager are you using? Does it load a sound system daemon? I
> > ask, because I had problems in KDE at one point on my wife's computer:
> > it was loading artsd, and I didn't have XMMS configured to use artsd --
> > and hence it wouldn't play sound. When she had me switch her to
> > blackbox, XMMS worked fine.
>
> I'm using fluxbox, so essentially I'm using blackbox, I guess.
I asked simply to see if the WM was loading a sound daemon -- it's not,
if you're using fluxbox.
> > Also, why do you want to use ESD?
>
> Other applications, like Gaim, want to use ESD, and can't seem to put
> anything out to the real world as audio information.
Ah. Okay. That makes sense. I use Gaim as well -- but since I don't run
ESD and don't care if there's sound output, I never realized it had
sound!
> It seems that ESD
> always worked in the past. Perhaps it's time to roll a 2.4.x kernel
> and just go the ALSA route? Does ALSA even support an ES1371 soundcard
> is another question, I suppose...
That's what's on my wife's computer, and I did end up using ALSA. It
wasn't exactly trivial to set up -- and I can't remember right now how I
did it -- but it IS possible! (said while listening to David Bowie off
her computer...)
Good luck!
Matthew
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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