Hello,

I am having a strange problem with getting xmms to use the alsa output
plugin. Sometimes xmms will output sound using alsa while the majority
of the time a little box will pop up saying "Please check your config
and make sure nothing else is using the soundcard". I am using KDE and
it's configured to use alsa. All the kde sounds work fine. I'm using
kernel 2.6.11.

Thanks

Kyle Peterson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having a strange problem with getting xmms to use the alsa output
> plugin. Sometimes xmms will output sound using alsa while the majority
> of the time a little box will pop up saying "Please check your config
> and make sure nothing else is using the soundcard". I am using KDE and
> it's configured to use alsa. All the kde sounds work fine. I'm using
> kernel 2.6.11.

Yeah, have had that problem too, but I have compiled OSS support into ALSA, so
I can switch between the audio out driver. No clue why this happens.


//Aho

Kyle Peterson enlightened us with:
> I am having a strange problem with getting xmms to use the alsa output
> plugin.

You might want to check the alsa version you're using. The 1.0.8
release gave quite a lot of problems. My problems went away when I
added:

=media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.8
=media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.8

to /etc/portage/package.mask, and re-compiled those packages.

> I am using KDE and it's configured to use alsa. All the kde sounds
> work fine.

Kill artsd and try again.

Sybren
--
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capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> Kyle Peterson enlightened us with:
>
>>I am having a strange problem with getting xmms to use the alsa output
>>plugin.
>
>
> You might want to check the alsa version you're using. The 1.0.8
> release gave quite a lot of problems. My problems went away when I
> added:
>
> =media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.8
> =media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.8
>
> to /etc/portage/package.mask, and re-compiled those packages.
>
>
>>I am using KDE and it's configured to use alsa. All the kde sounds
>>work fine.
>
>
> Kill artsd and try again.
>
> Sybren

Yeah it was arts causing problems. I just configured XMMS to use arts
output. Works good enough for me. Thanks for the help.