sound and XMMS

Tue, 4 Jun 2002 16:55:40 -0700

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:18:21PM -0700, mazdaracer wrote:
> I prefer to use the IceWM due to it's quick interface, at least on
> startup, and I don't really care about the desktop that much. However,
> when I try to use XMMS it doesn't always work. I can get it to work
> sometimes by starting in the KDE or Gnome WM, running XMMS and it's ok.
> Then I switch back to Ice and XMMS is ok there too. However, after I
> re-boot, the sound is once again gone from Ice and I have to go thru the
> same KDE -> Ice to 'see' it again. Anyone had similiar problems? Or is
> there something better than XMMS? I'd personnally like to get Route66
> up, but haven't had the time yet.

Is esd running when IceWM is running? Also, is XMMS set to use esound as
it's output? If so, you'll want to either change it to use the OSS plugin
for output, or start esd manually in your .xinitrc file.

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