Sometimes getting sound fine under woody, but not with xine
I'm a bit mystified about a problem that I've been pursuing on and off
for the past couple weeks or so. I've finally thrown up my hands and
decided to ask about this here.
I'm running woody, and in many cases, sound works just fine. For
example, I hear the music that KDE desktop plays when it comes up (even
though when I get some time, I want to figure out how to disable this!).
Also, I have installed the mplayer debian package, and that program
plays mpeg's and avi's just fine with sound, using its oss driver
(ao=oss in the mplayer config file).
However, when I try to use xine and its cousins (such as sinek) to view
these same avi's and mpeg's, I never get any sound, and I get error
messages like this (long lines wrapped to fit in this message):
audio_oss_out: Opening audio device...
audio_oss_out: using device >/dev/dsp1<
audio_oss_out: opening audio device /dev/dsp1 failed:
No such device
load_plugins: audio output plugin
/usr/lib/xine/plugins/xineplug_ao_out_oss.so:
init_audio_out_plugin failed.
main: the specified audio driver 'oss' failed
I indeed have a /dev/dsp1:
% ls -Flasd /dev/dsp*
0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Dec 28 01:37 /dev/dsp
0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 Dec 28 01:37 /dev/dsp1
0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 Dec 28 01:37 /dev/dsp2
0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 Dec 28 01:37 /dev/dsp3
I don't get any sound even when I run xine and sinek as root, by the way.
The following line appears in /etc/group:
audio:x:29:root[, other user names]
% uname -a (long line wrapped ...)
Linux home 2.4.20-686-smp #1 SMP Sat Dec 21 16:41:15 EST 2002
i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
And below are the results of lsmod. Notice the entries for i810_audio,
ac97_codec, audio, sound, and soundcore in that list.
There has got to be something simple that I'm overlooking here.
Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide.
% lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
iptable_filter 1768 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables 11160 1 [iptable_filter]
i810_audio 23912 0
ac97_codec 9864 0 [i810_audio]
audio 38172 0 (unused)
sound 55884 0 (unused)
soundcore 4036 4 [i810_audio audio sound]
msr 1448 0 (unused)
microcode 3808 0 (unused)
cpuid 1032 0 (unused)
netlink_dev 1860 0 (unused)
ipx 18788 0
umsdos 24800 0 (unused)
msdos 4908 0 [umsdos]
fat 30488 0 [umsdos msdos]
smbfs 34320 0 (unused)
romfs 3812 0 (unused)
binfmt_misc 5952 1
binfmt_aout 4068 0
usb-storage 55900 0 (unused)
visor 8716 0 (unused)
kl5kusb105 9048 0 (unused)
ipaq 5056 0 (unused)
usbserial 17724 0 [visor kl5kusb105 ipaq]
usbnet 10146 0 (unused)
printer 7008 0 (unused)
microtek 5520 0 (unused)
mdc800 7292 0 (unused)
ibmcam 39456 0 (unused)
usbvideo 23000 0 [ibmcam]
videodev 5696 0 [usbvideo]
dc2xx 3200 0 (unused)
isa-pnp 28484 0 (unused)
tulip 39712 1
raw1394 6968 0 (unused)
ohci1394 15976 0 (unused)
ieee1394 31468 0 [raw1394 ohci1394]
agpgart 34528 0 (unused)
parport_pc 21224 1 (autoclean)
lp 6016 0 (unused)
parport 24320 1 [parport_pc lp]
busmouse 3292 0 (unused)
nbd 15396 0 (unused)
keybdev 1664 0 (unused)
usbkbd 2908 0 (unused)
input 3520 0 [keybdev usbkbd]
usb-uhci 22220 0 (unused)
usbcore 58112 1 [audio usb-storage visor kl5kusb105 ipaq usbserial usbnet printer microtek mdc800 ibmcam usbvideo dc2xx usbkbd usb-uhci]
rtc 6588 1 (autoclean)
sd_mod 10764 12 (autoclean)
ext3 60832 5 (autoclean)
jbd 40040 5 (autoclean) [ext3]
aic7xxx 111640 6 (autoclean)
scsi_mod 91480 2 (autoclean) [usb-storage microtek sd_mod aic7xxx]
unix 15784 108 (autoclean)
--
Lloyd Zusman
ljz@asfast.com
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