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 <digital9ja@cox.net> 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.
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