Re: Playing ogg files
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:07:02 -0500, Jason Rennie <jrennie@csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:46:16AM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote:
> > Just for the sake of it, check if some friend pulled a practical joke
> > by installing an alias for ogg123. :) Something is wrong if `alias
> > ogg123' gives you something like this:
>
> I wish :( Only other person with physical access to the machine is my
> wife (who uses linux as little as possible). Just to check:
>
> jrennie@desk:~$ alias ogg123
> -bash: alias: ogg123: not found
>
> I have a laptop with basically the same configuration as my desktop
> (also Debian Sarge, nearly identical set of packages). It plays the
> ogg files without trouble. I checked the version number of
> vorbis-tools and all the packages that vorbis-tools depends on.
> They're identical!
>
> I'm running 2.4.27-1-686 on both machines. Only possibility I can
> think of is that the sound card on my desktop is flaky... could a
> flaky sound card cause this problem?
I think it might be more of a driver issue. Try playing some .wav's or
.mp3's with another program and see what that does. Do you have alsa
or OSS? You might have both? Check with lsmod to see what sound
modules are loaded.
greets,
Wim
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