hello all, I have got a peculiar problem. Usually i work in gnome,and there only i listen to songs and movies in xmms and mplayer. Oneday,i went to kde and tried playing songs in xmms there in kde..,but to my horror,it showed device not detected ,and souncard busy.Then again i came back to Gnome,and tried playing xmms,and to my surprise no sound was coming..!!!! ,but the song is seen to be played.in the xmms player..,ditto with mplayer too....But,in other OS,i.e Windows i face no problem. But since most of the times i work in Linux(Fedora 2),i prefer working and listening to songs in linux only.. But,after this problem,my life has become hell,and i dunno what to do.. Can,anyone suggest me what may the problem..??? I have checked volume control,it was not in mute..,and if sound-card not ready,then how come in the player song vl play..?? Plzz,help me... cheers romel
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 10:00 am, romel dutta wrote:
I have got a peculiar problem. Usually i work in gnome,and there only i listen to songs and movies in xmms and mplayer. Oneday,i went to kde and tried playing songs in xmms there in kde..,but to my horror,it showed device not detected ,and souncard busy.Then again i came back to Gnome,and tried playing xmms,and to my surprise no sound was coming..!!!! ,but the song is seen to be played.in the xmms player..,ditto with mplayer too....But,in other OS,i.e Windows i face no problem.
In KDE wait for about a minute and then try playing the file. Also run alsa-mixer at command line as root and check out if your sound is muted. Don't depend too much on the GUI apps in KDE or GNOME to tell you whats wrong with your system.
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romel dutta wrote:
But since most of the times i work in Linux(Fedora 2),i prefer working and listening to songs in linux only.. But,after this problem,my life has become hell,and i dunno what to do.. Can,anyone suggest me what may the problem..??? I have checked volume control,it was not in mute..,and if sound-card not ready,then how come in the player song vl play..??
Which file format are you talking about ?
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On 3/14/06, romel dutta romel.dutta@gmail.com wrote:
hello all, I have got a peculiar problem. Usually i work in gnome,and there only i listen to songs and movies in xmms and mplayer. Oneday,i went to kde and tried playing songs in xmms there in kde..,but to my horror,it showed device not detected ,and souncard busy.Then again i came back to Gnome,and tried playing xmms,and to my surprise no sound was coming..!!!! ,but the song is seen to be played.in the xmms player..,ditto with mplayer too....But,in other OS,i.e Windows i face no problem.
The reason should be pretty simple. The sound output server xmms might have used would be esd under Gnome, which does not run under KDE by default.
When you switched back to gnome arts sound daemon had probably captured the pcm device.
The simplest way would be to use esd in both gnome and kde. Disable arts in kde. run esd and your sound should be back.
Its indeed scary to program without music :)
regards, C
On 3/15/06, Chetan S cshring@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/14/06, romel dutta romel.dutta@gmail.com wrote:
hello all,
The simplest way would be to use esd in both gnome and kde. Disable arts in kde. run esd and your sound should be back.
Its indeed scary to program without music :)
regards, C
you can use lsof /dev/dsp to find out which process is curruntly using your dsp device.
generally /dev/dsp is a device which used by xmms for output.
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On 3/15/06, Abhishek Sawant abhisawa@gmail.com wrote:
generally /dev/dsp is a device which used by xmms for output.
Only if output plugin is OSS and not esd/arts/alsa
regards, C
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 12:20 pm, Chetan S wrote:
On 3/15/06, Abhishek Sawant abhisawa@gmail.com wrote:
generally /dev/dsp is a device which used by xmms for output.
Only if output plugin is OSS and not esd/arts/alsa
regards, C
In Core 2 he needs to use OSS. ALSA wont work.
On 3/15/06, Dinesh A. Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
In Core 2 he needs to use OSS. ALSA wont work.
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I thought Fedora core 2 came with a 2.6 kernel and alsa. It does come with libalsa and alsa-utils. So alsa should work, no ?
Or are you referring to the lack of alsa plugin in xmms for fc2 by default ? That can be easily fixed with the plugin from xmms.
regards, C
On Wednesday 15 March 2006 12:42 pm, Chetan S wrote:
I thought Fedora core 2 came with a 2.6 kernel and alsa. It does come with libalsa and alsa-utils. So alsa should work, no ?
Or are you referring to the lack of alsa plugin in xmms for fc2 by default ? That can be easily fixed with the plugin from xmms.
It has 2.6.5 kernel installed by default but i think ALSA has OSS Emulation enabled so for some reason XMMS works only when OSS is selected.
On 3/15/06, Dinesh A. Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
It has 2.6.5 kernel installed by default but i think ALSA has OSS Emulation enabled so for some reason XMMS works only when OSS is selected.
Thats where esd / arts step in. Using ALSA/OSS emulation devices directly is not a recommended way for basic sound applications as most regular apps block the devices.
regards, C
On 15/03/06 14:08 +0530, Chetan S wrote:
On 3/15/06, Dinesh A. Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
It has 2.6.5 kernel installed by default but i think ALSA has OSS Emulation enabled so for some reason XMMS works only when OSS is selected.
Thats where esd / arts step in. Using ALSA/OSS emulation devices directly is not a recommended way for basic sound applications as most regular apps block the devices.
Except for those of us who don't wish to have KDE and GNOME bits lying around.
Devdas Bhagat
On 3/15/06, Devdas Bhagat devdas@dvb.homelinux.org wrote:
Thats where esd / arts step in. Using ALSA/OSS emulation devices
directly is
not a recommended way for basic sound applications as most regular apps block the devices.
Except for those of us who don't wish to have KDE and GNOME bits lying around.
yes. ALSA dmix is the answer then. Then OSS becomes the problem child.
regards, C
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