clair Posted October 26, 2004 Report Share Posted October 26, 2004 Hi. I am a newbie and I am not familiar with using forums. Anyhow, I have a problem using XMMS on KDE. I am able to play songs of various formats on GNOME, Enlightenment and WinMaker but XMMS simply freezes up in KDE. I am trying to find out a way for people to enjoy using MandrakeLinux the way I have been doing so but KDE seems to be the interface the people with me are comfortable using. I tried running XMMS from Terminal/command line and it works. The moment I close terminal, it's gone. I really like how KDE looks because I am still used to Windows. I would really like to be able to use XMMS on it though. Thank you very much. Clair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demetrio Posted October 26, 2004 Report Share Posted October 26, 2004 (edited) Update your xmms. Take packages from 10.1 Community or for example from here: http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/Mandrake...i586/Sound.html http://mandrake.linuxpia.com/download.php Another variant to try: open menu editor and change Multimedia > Sound > XMMS launch entry from 'soundwrapper xmms' to simply 'xmms' Edited October 26, 2004 by Demetrio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeyKlitske Posted October 26, 2004 Report Share Posted October 26, 2004 Navigate to menudrake (system>other>menudrake) and delete the word "soundwrapper" at the command entry for xmms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted October 26, 2004 Report Share Posted October 26, 2004 also in KDE the default soud driver is the arts driver and if this has not been installed it can hang.. If you have set up your URPMI sources (See FAQ) then you can just upgrade/install for this... In the Control Centre (Manage your computer) check the packeages and install software... search on arts and see if there is an XMMS-arts available (or similar).. at the same time you can update the XMMS to the latest too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 27, 2004 Report Share Posted October 27, 2004 another simple way is: go to the options section of your xmms-menu and select ALSA instead of OSS as default sound-output. that is all that needs to be done (a very old bug indeed). ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clair Posted October 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2004 Update your xmms. Take packages from 10.1 Community or for example from here: http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/Mandrake...i586/Sound.html http://mandrake.linuxpia.com/download.php Another variant to try: open menu editor and change Multimedia > Sound > XMMS launch entry from 'soundwrapper xmms' to simply 'xmms' <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have no internet access at home so downloading 10.1 Community packages isn't possible. But I did try the second thing you suggested and that worked fine afterwards. Thank you so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clair Posted October 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2004 By the way, what's with the word "soundwrapper"? How come I needed to remove it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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