Using ALSA Sound Driver with XMMS?
 

Running Slackware with ALSA and I've configured it ok, but if I select it the output plugin as ALSA, I get no sound, but if I leave the standard plugin as OSS, its ok.

Anyway to get ALSA to work with XMMS?

thanks

Try running XMMS from the console so you can see the error messages. I usually add my user account to the groups sys and disk to avoid permission problems.

Done that, and I get no error output.

Only in the gui when I do Options > Preferences > Output Plugins > Select ALSA

I get the following generic message


Please Check That:

Your soundcard is configured properly
You have the correct output plugin selected
No other program is blocking the soundcard

I had to change the permisions on /dev/dsp0 for the alsa drivers to work in XMMS...
Also check the link: /dev/dsp to see where it points to. That is propably your actuall DSP Device.
l8tr
Feend

Not sure what dsp0 is? What is it and what does it have to do with XMMS?

/dev/dsp0 is my (and probably yours) sound output device. Every thing in Linux is a file. This is where your sound goes. If you don't have permission to write to it no sound. Try this:
Log in as root w/ your window manager. Try to use the xmms alsa driver w/ xmms. If it works you found the problem. If not post back. Then we will look at your links.
L8tr,
Feend

I had to run ./snddevices in the alsa-driver directory to make it work.

Your right, I'll change rights on that so I can get ALSA to work on a regular account

thanks

Cool, Good to hear it! :)
Feend

Whoopsss... Spoke to soon.

I changed /dev/dsp0 to a regular user (using chown), not root. Didn't work.

You should've done a "chmod 666 /dev/dsp0" as root if you were going to go that route. Or you
could do a "usermod -G users,sys,disk <your_user_name>" and that way you won't have a problem when you go to listen to a CD either.

Tried this, and still not getting sound with ALSA set at output for XMMS

I solved this problem with "chmod a+r /dev/snd/*". hth,

This is what I've changed it to under /dev


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