Frustrated newbie slackware user

libranikki · 11-19-2003, 10:28 PM

ok well lets see.......my husband did something and a sound card is detected and i checked everything u guys wanted me to check and everything was fine. i just cant understand cuz it worked before and then i can listen to cd's and all, i just cant hear sound on websites. im not really sure whats so different. but i installed GTK-Gnutella and i love it! NOW, whats a good mp3player? LOL.

much love,
nikki

Rico16135 · 11-20-2003, 06:07 AM

i use xmms... its very much like winamp but better.

r_jensen11 · 11-20-2003, 03:56 PM

Did you check all of your active mixers? Both ALSA's and your GUI's? Maybe even OSS's, if that even has a mixer?

libranikki · 11-20-2003, 09:01 PM

Ok as I am typing this, I am listening to my music on my computer!!!! I got alsa working and I also re-installed xmms all by myself

You all were sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much help and I appreciate it soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!! Thank you!!!!

much love,
nikki

Rico16135 · 11-21-2003, 07:15 AM

man i wish my girlfriend was into linux like you...

libranikki · 11-24-2003, 07:56 PM

LOL Rico! It took awhile but I am figuring it out slowly. Now I am trying to convert my co-workers, since they are all stuck on windows. windows 98 no less!!!! go figure.

much love,
nikki

Brane Ded · 11-24-2003, 08:09 PM

I feel your pain on the sound thing. I recompiled my kernel to better suit my machine, and went for about two days without sound trying to figure out what was wrong, I eventually realized I needed to reinstall ALSA. On the plus side, my sound actually works better now than it did before.

Your friends are using Windows 98? Ack! You need to save those poor souls.

r_jensen11 · 11-24-2003, 08:39 PM

Anyone know when 2.6.0 is coming out, approximately?

libranikki · 11-25-2003, 06:22 PM

Brane, They are poor souls! LOL. And my sound works better then it did before also. And...it works better then it did on windows. Yay for me!!!

much love,
nikki

pele_smk · 11-25-2003, 11:24 PM

Ok so slack9.1 doesn't give users sound permissions to dsp do I just chmod 751 or 777 or similar to the dsp location to give the normal users sound? Because I'm not getting sound as normal user

Brane Ded · 11-25-2003, 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by pele_smk
Ok so slack9.1 doesn't give users sound permissions to dsp do I just chmod 751 or 777 or similar to the dsp location to give the normal users sound? Because I'm not getting sound as normal user

I don't know what's up with that. The drivers worked fine for me without having to change the permissions and I'm using the same version. At any rate, I think it's
chmod 666 /dev/dsp*
chmod 666 /dev/mixer*

Hope that helped.

libranikki · 11-28-2003, 07:57 PM

ok all....now heres a new question for u.....I have installed and started using GTK+Gnutella. I love it . It's absolutely fabulous. But when i first started using it, I got every song I wanted. Now I cant get anything. It tells me that it's waiting, but it's been waiting for like 3 days now. So can anyone give me any hints or maybe Im missing something?

much love,
nikki