Do you have gst-plugins-gnomevfs installed? I haven't used Gentoo in quite a while, but Rhythmbox is dependent on the gstreamer program (as are most Gnome media applications). I would verify that you have the gstreamer plug-ins installed. madhse@yahoo.com wrote: > Thanks, I did read about that, and went for the simplest set of flags and > options considered "safe". I have no interest in getting a theoretical 0.5% > speed increase at the risk of stability. > > My only problem is with trying to play music. I suspect I'm missing something > I need to install, but I don't know how to find out what it is. > > If I try to use Rhythmbox (I know most will probably recommend something > else, but it has the smallest memory footprint of the players I've tried, and > I have used it very successfully on other distros), It prints a message for > each .ogg file in the library saying something like gnomevfssrc element could > not be created (I don't have the exact message handy). It seems like the > forums on every major distro have a post from someone with this problem, but > no solutions that I could find. I installed two packages whose names seemed > to indicate they had something to do with gnomevfs. > > I installed Totem and tried to play the music files. It runs and thinks it's > playing them, but I get no sound. > > Oh well, more digging I guess. I may start using this for serious work, as > it is very fast, and very clean the way I have it set up. > > > > --- Steven G Wagner wrote: > > >> DO NOT put ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in your make.conf. It's not the >> equivalent of Debian's unstable, it's far worse. Put it in >> packages.keywords >> WITH the specific version number of a package only if you really really >> really need the unstable version. Gentoo doesn't operate like Debian, >> stable Gentoo is far more hip than Debian's stable, and when Gentoo masks >> packages as unstable, it's really really unstable. >> >> I agree with all this, broke my last system this way and was too lazy to >> fix >> it so I switched to SUSE 10.1. Love SUSE, it's on my notebook right now but >> still I'm working on setting up a file/web server right now with hardened >> gentoo. >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss