sound and XMMS

[mazdaracer]

I too have it dual booted on my laptop and it's ok there. I'm using
Mandrake 8.1. In fact, I just tried to go over to KDE (works ok) then
back to Ice and it didn't 'fix itself' like it sometimes does.

I use the OSS Driver 1.2.5 [libOSS.so] pointing to /dev/dsp as the
alternate device; switching to default and trying to play gives me the 3
points of why I can't open the sound. I've got a SB Live audio card.

This is interesting:
[pete@rotor pete]$ ll /dev/dsp
ls: /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
[pete@rotor pete]$ ll /dev/d*
/dev/discs:
total 0
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           30 Dec 31  1969 disc0 ->
../ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/

/dev/dri:
total 0
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root     226,   0 Jun  1 19:56 card0
[pete@rotor pete]$ ll /dev/sound
total 0
crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,   4 May 24 19:28 audio
crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,   3 May 24 19:28 dsp
crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,  19 May 24 19:28 dsp1
crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,   5 May 24 19:28 dspW
crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,   2 May 24 19:28 midi
crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,  18 May 24 19:28 midi1
crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,   0 May 24 19:28 mixer
crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,   1 May 24 19:28 sequencer
crw-------    1 pete     audio     14,   8 May 24 19:28 sequencer2
[pete@rotor pete]$   


There should be a /dev/dsp entry but clearly none exist. I changed the
sound to point to /dev/sound/dsp and now it's ok.    This is kind of
strange!

pete


Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
> I use IceWM on my laptop without any problems with sound.  What Distro are you
> using?  Under RedHat I did sndconfig and it set up the options and placed then
> in /etc/modules.conf (or is it now conf.modules).  What sound output preferences
> do you have XMMS set to?
> 
> 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.
> >
> > pete
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