Guest Technodreamer Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 I have one of those via AC'97 sound cards, and it works fine in Red Hat linux, but not in Mandrake linux. I have definatly got it set to ALSA (I went into KDE and forced it onto ALSA), the volume is not muted, but still XMMS will play something, but I wont hear it. Please help!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 hi technodreamer. simply do the following: open xmms, open the menu for it, go to "preferences" and select the ALSA sound-output. that should fix it. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 Have you adjusted the volume settings in alsa-mixer? Other mixers will not always show all of the settings on your board, so alsa-mixer is the only sure way. It's part of the alsa-utils package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted August 11, 2004 Report Share Posted August 11, 2004 the command on mdk is alsamixer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Technodreamer Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 OK, I set the volume up. Btu I still can't hear anything. There is no Alsa in xmms, so I set it to use the arts system, and set the arts system to use alsa. I have a driver for my sound card, but I am at a loss on how to install drivers in linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 12, 2004 Report Share Posted August 12, 2004 there is an ALSA option in xmms. i a not in front of my mdk box right now, but simply browse through the options/preferences (or however they called it) in xmms. you should find it. i think i says OSS by default. so change OSS to ALSA. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 Is your card using the AC97 driver. Its not the default one but it is there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 The ALSA output plugin for XMMS might need to be downloaded and installed seperately (this was the case with my Gentoo box last year). Just checking: is xmms the only problem, or is their no sound anywhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 even if XMMS is using OSS, and you run Alsa, you should still hear it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 even if XMMS is using OSS, and you run Alsa, you should still hear it. yes, should, but it doesn't work somehow. don't ask me why this is so... i never found out. :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afrosheen Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 This may be due to the stupid way Mandrake has the xmms icon setup to work in KDE. If you're selecting it from the KDE menu then it's set to output through the arts daemon, which rarely works right with xmms. Either it'll freeze xmms right away or it'll look lik eit's playing but you'll get no sound. To see if this is the case, crack open a console and type 'xmms &' without the ' ' marks and hit enter. If xmms plays fine this way, you're set. All you do now is right click the xmms icon and go to properties. Look at what the executable is set to. It should have some junk about artswrapper. All that it should have is simply 'xmms'. Set it, save it, and you're done. If this doesn't fix it...keep trying. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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