Re: XMMS and Sreamtuner?
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:41:39 +1000
geoff <geoffproud@dodo.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 03:22 pm, Adam Porter wrote:
> > geoff wrote:
> > > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 02:27 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >>For me, it "just works". What happens when you try to open a
> > >>stream using ST?
> > >>
> > >>What DE are you using?
> > >
> > > Hi Ron, It connects, buffers, then a box comes up "couldn't open
> > > audio" please check your soundcard is configured properly and you
> > > have the correct output plugin selected and no other program is
> > > blocking the soundcard.> In Mepis the output plugin in XMMS is
> > > aRts Output 0.7.1(libarts.so) but I haven't got that in the
> > > configuration boxes in Debian XMMS
> > > thanks
> > > geoff
> >
> > We still don't know what desktop environment you're using, but I
> > recommend you install ALSA, configure it, and then install the XMMS
> > ALSA plugin, then set XMMS to use that for its audio output.
>
> Sorry, I'm in KDE,
> I got alsa and did alsa conf in the terminal and got, "unloading alsa
> sound drivers: (none loaded) building card database. No card database.
> Aborting." Xmms has alsa as an output plugin now but still get the
> above message in previous post..
> I do get system sounds and the mixer is OK.
> Any more ideas?
You could try "apt-get install xmms-arts". Then you should have aRts as
an output option in Xmms. (Since you said KDE sounds are working
properly, I'm assuming aRts is running and working properly.)
HTH,
Jacob
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