Re: Mplayer and esd: "Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound."

[Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com>]

On 03/12/2005 06:20 AM, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> After solving the problem with XMMS (simply switching to esd), I have
> problems with mplayer.
> # dpkg -l mpla\*
> ii  mplayer-586                      1.0-pre6-sarge0.2
> I've got the packages from ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat
>
> If I switch to esound in mplayer, I simply get the error:
> Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
> .. while XMMS is working fine.
>
> When I use my hack to kill all sound apps and reload ALSA...
> #!/bin/sh
> /etc/init.d/alsa force-unload
> modprobe snd
> modprobe soundcore
> modprobe snd_seq_device 
> modprobe snd_rawmidi
> modprobe snd_mpu401_uart
> modprobe snd_page_alloc
> modprobe snd_timer
> modprobe snd_pcm
> modprobe snd_mixer_oss
> modprobe snd_pcm_oss
> modprobe snd_ac97_codec
> modprobe snd_intel8x0
> alsactl restore
> ... ALSA works in mplayer, but I want esd.
>
> Any help very much appreciated!
>
> Thanks & best regards,
> Hannes.

Have you put esd in your .mplayer/config file?

Here's mine, though I'm using oss:

~$ uname -r
2.6.8-2-686

~$ cat .mplayer/config
# Write your default config options here!

ao=esd


There's more detail in   man mplayer  of course.

Good luck!

Ralph