[PlanetCCRMA] No basic sound.

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Tue Oct 11 18:35:02 2005


On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 03:50 +0800, Robert Jonkman wrote:
> > Most likely you're looking in the wrong place for this one. It doesn't
> > sound like a modules problem to me, but far mor an application
> > capabilities issue.
> > 
> > What do you mean 'don't work'? Does the GUI not come up? Does the GUI
> > come up but menus don't work? Does everythign work visually but your
> > don't get sound? If you don't get sound then from what media are you
> > trying to get sound? CDs? mp3s? Something else?
> > 
> > We'll need some more info.
> 
> All the program start up and I see their gui's, however they are not
> capable of actually playing.  For example, if lanch xmms by double
> clicking on an .ogg file, it just opens up the 'load media' dialog box.
> Choosing another mp3 or .ogg from this dialog results in nothing.
> Switching to the jack plug-in for xmms fails to show up in Jack.
> Nothing can actually play any sound other than application that
> specifically designed to connect to jack....and yes, I have been
> terminating my jack sessions before trying to get the programs to run.
> I'll keep playing around with it.  I remember that xmms-jack used to
> work.  I'm not exactly sure what's different; I have been fiddling
> around with everything :(

Try playing a plain wav file using aplay, just a basic test to see if
alsa is working fine. 

-- Fernando