On September 22, 2004 06:34 am, Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe wrote: > I have been having problems with sound and recording etc. > For example, on startup cd player works perfectly, but XMMS does not (on > the ALSA plugin setting). If I change it to the OSS setting it does work.
iirc, xmms requires a plugin. I use (well, I rarely use XMMS) xmms-arts (because I use KDE). I don't see such a thing for esd, though. > Also I if want to play a DVD with totem player I get no sound, and I see > no way of changing the settings in totem itself. Once, it did work, but i > can't remember under which conditions. Been there, done that. My ALSA config just stopped working with some upgrade. After much tweaking, I discovered that I could run alsaconf in a KDE session and it would restore sound for the duration of that session only. With more tweaking, I broke even that. :-( Then one day, for the first time in six months or more, I logged into KDE as root, and got sounds as it started the desktop. Ever since, I get sound in my user account. I haven't a clue what happened by logging in as root, but it was obviously important. > > > You'd be wanting to use ALSA, not OSS. Run ALSAconf. I don't use esd, > > but I expect you have a configuration applet to tell it to use ALSA. > > i have run alsaconf, but i don't know how to tell esd to use ALSA. > > any ideas? Go KDE? Sorry, but I know nothing about esd. I just know enough to get in trouble :-) and that OSS is deprecated, so you can't rely on it. -- derek
