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Re: Sometimes getting sound fine under woody, but not with xine



"nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org> writes:

> Lloyd Zusman said:
>
>>   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
>
> while I cannot provide a solution I can say that I too have experienced
> this. On my IBM thinkpad T20 with 2.2.19, getting xine to work with
> audio was hell. I never figured out how I got it working since everytime
> I rebooted the system I had to start from scratch again, maybe I only got
> it working by blind luck. I upgraded to 2.4.20 a couple weeks ago, ran
> xine for the first time last night and audio worked perfectly for about
> 30 seconds then the X server froze(though the audio was still comming through
> clearly). Haven't tried it other then the one time. I notice your using
> 2.4.19 now.. perhaps switching to ALSA would help? I tried switching to
> ALSA and had no luck either under 2.2.19. Though XMMS, mpg123, and games
> like simcity 3000 worked flawlessly as far as sound goes. never a glitch.

Thanks for your reply.  At least now I don't feel so alone with this
problem.

Actually, I'm using 2.4.20-686-smp (see the "uname -a" entry in my
original message).  But the same problem has been there for me in
2.4.{18,19}-686-smp, as well.


> perhaps a bug in the driver..or in xine ? I don't recall trying other
> video players on my laptop, only xine.
>
> nate

Well, since I can hear KDE's startup music, and since mplayer's oss
driver properly produces sounds for me, I do think that it's somehow a
driver problem.  But the mystery is whether it's an xine driver problem,
a kernel driver problem (perhaps mplayer and KDE use their own sound
drivers which bypass the kernel), or what ...  ???


-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com



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