I installed the drivers correctly I believe (No thanks to you guys!). But XMMS is doing something odd. When I hit play, it goes to volume 0%, then 1%, then 0%, and so on... It never plays at all. Can you guys tell me whats going on? I'm using the newest version, and I'm running Mandrake 9.1 But I think it involves my soundcard, so I put this in the hardware forums.

Do you all hate me? Why can't you help me out here? What is so wrong with me? This just isn't fair!

I've never seen XMMS do this personally, but to start with, can you give us your system specs and also the output of dmesg and lsmod? A little more information would certainly help.

slight

most definately. Its a 900Mhz HP Pavillion 8765C with 128MB Ram with two CD-ROM Drives(One DVD, other CD-RW), A floppy drive, 45.0 GB Ultra DMA Hard Drive (Partitioned. Half-XP Half-Mandrake 9.1)I wish I knew what my mother board was. It's an AMD Athlon Processor.
My soundcard is a 123456 Master Riptide Audio PCI
My modules.conf file is the following:

probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
probeall usb-interface usb-uhci
alias eth0 8139too
alias /dev/ttySHSF* hsfserial
alias char-major-240 hsfserial
alias /dev/ttyCUA* hsfserial
alias char-major-241 hsfserial
alias /dev/modem hsfserial
options hsfserial serialmajor=240 calloutmajor=241
alias sound-slot-1 riptidelow
alias /dev/dsp riptidelow
alias /dev/sound/dsp riptidelow
alias /dev/mixer riptidelow
alias /dev/sound/mixer riptidelow

And yes, thats the whole file.

LSMOD output:
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
isofs 27988 1 (autoclean)
zlib_inflate 21156 0 (autoclean) [isofs]
udf 90464 0 (autoclean)
lp 8096 1
parport_pc 25096 1
parport 34176 1 [lp parport_pc]
riptidelow 20188 0
riptidesound 14028 0 [riptidelow]
opl3 14272 0 [riptidelow]
mpu401 22884 0 [riptidelow riptidesound]
sound 70644 0 [opl3 mpu401]
soundcore 6276 0 [riptidesound sound]
riptideint 7720 1 [riptidelow]
nfsd 74256 8 (autoclean)
af_packet 14952 1 (autoclean)
sr_mod 16920 2 (autoclean)
floppy 55132 0
8139too 17160 1 (autoclean)
mii 3832 0 (autoclean) [8139too]
nls_iso8859-1 3516 2 (autoclean)
ntfs 76812 1 (autoclean)
supermount 15296 3 (autoclean)
ide-cd 33856 0
cdrom 31648 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi 11280 1
scsi_mod 103284 2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
usb-uhci 24652 0 (unused)
usbcore 72992 1 [usb-uhci]
rtc 8060 0 (autoclean)
ext3 59916 1
jbd 38972 1 [ext3]

DMESG Output:
Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdk (flepied@bi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) #1 Fri Mar 14
15:08:06 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8c00 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff0000 - 0000000007fffc00 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007fffc00 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 32752
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 28656 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=305 devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 906.351 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1808.79 BogoMIPS
Memory: 126112k/131008k available (1410k kernel code, 4508k reserved, 1118k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 906.3232 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 201.4051 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 2014051, slice: 1007025
CPU0<T0:2014048,T1:1007008,D:15,S:1007025,C:2014051>
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122
ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd80c, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:04.0
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:04.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:04.2
PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 00:04.3, from 0 to 9
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS not found.
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfc000000, mapped to 0xc8800000, size 4096k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=3
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:0336
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 25593 bytes).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x16
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:04.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1460-0x1467, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1468-0x146f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD450AA-00BAA0, ATA DISK drive
hda: DMA disabled
blk: queue c03cb420, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: CR-4804TE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-115 0111, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: DMA disabled
hdd: DMA disabled
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 87930864 sectors (45021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=5815/240/63, UDMA(66)
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 >
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 108k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:32:56 Mar 14 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:04.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:04.3
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1440, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:04.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:04.2
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfce0, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: MITSUMI Model: CR-4804TE Rev: 2.6C
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
hdd: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
NTFS driver 2.1.1a [Flags: R/O MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0f.0
eth0: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xc8dbc000, 00:10:b5:7c:b6:58, IRQ 9
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B'
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-0.13mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1.
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996
Conexant Sound Driver v0.5lnxtbeta03042700 time 18:20:29 Jul 15 2003
<RIPTIDE> Init_module is completed
<RTLOW> version v0.5lnxtbeta03042700 time 18:20:26 Jul 15 2003
<RTLOW> Look for 127a 4320 - absent
<RTLOW> Look for 127a 4330 - absent
<RTLOW> Look for 127a 4310<6>PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0e.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0e.1
- found at io 1400 irq 10
<RTLOW> Start allocation of resources: c69b3840
<RIPTIDE> Register hardware c69b3840
<RIPTIDE> register is successful
<RTLOW> Resources are allocated: io 0x1400 irq 10
<RTLOW> Init command interface: 1400 a c8e1be80
<RP_CMDIF> RipTide version before:
ASIC : 3
CODEC : 2
AUXDSP: 3
PROG : 773
<RP_CMDIF> Firmware size: 15597
<RP_CMDIF> Start RiptideLoadImage
<RP_CMDIF> Firmware is loaded.
<RP_CMDIF> RipTide version after:
ASIC : 3
CODEC : 2
AUXDSP: 3
PROG : 773
<RTINT> requesting io ports 0x1400-0x143f
<RTLOW> Init command riptide: 1400 a c8e1be80 c74056e0 c8dc39e0 c7405730
<RTLOW> riptide FM at io ports 0x388-0x38b
<RTLOW> Init_module is completed: index = 2
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP]
parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Splash status on console 0 changed to off
udf: registering filesystem
UDF-fs DEBUG lowlevel.c:57:udf_get_last_session: XA disk: no, vol_desc_start=0
UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:1426:udf_read_super: Multi-session=0
UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:415:udf_vrs: Starting at sector 16 (2048 byte sectors)
UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:442:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Primary Volume Descriptor found
UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:445:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Supplementary Volume Descriptor found
UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:451:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Volume Descriptor Set Terminator found
UDF-fs: No VRS found
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISOFS: changing to secondary root

I hope this helps you at all... :-/

bump?

hmmmm...... all of the modules seem to be loaded correctly, no IRQ conflits or any errors in your dmesg. It all looks fine. I think we can rule out a hardware (or at least a hardware config) issue, and just focus on XMMS as a culprit.

One thing I didn't think of before, are you trying to play an MP3? Can you play just a normal CD? I know that a lot of the distro's have removed MP3 support from XMMS because of copyright issues, and you have to manually dl and add the MP3 codec in-order for XMMS to play MP3s. Do you know if you have MP3 support?

slight

I too have never seen this problem.
First off has it worked before?

If so delete your ~/.xmms folder. Start up xmms again and see what happens. If it does not fix it then you will need to remove xmms and reinstall. If still no luck does sound work on your system? If not there is a problem with sound.

Hope this helps.
Brian1

Is mandrake one of the culprits for MP3 disable? Because that's exactly what I was trying to do. Do you know how to uninstall it? I tried, but I keep getting problems.... >

Issue this command in a terminal ' rpm -qa >rpm.list '
Now you can search the rpm.list file and find the names of all xmms files that will be removed. Use the following command rpm -e name_of_file
example' rpm -e xmms-1.2.7-21.p '

Then I would downlaod new rpms into a folder and issue the following command ' rpm -Uvh *.rpm ' .This will install all rpms in the folder

Hope you get it going.
Brian1

error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm

help?

It should also be noted that you have to do this with root privilages. If not you won't be able to open the packagedb.

log in as root or use either "su" or "sudo" to install the package.

Ok, I did re-install, and its not the problem. After tinkering around with the sound plugs, I realized that it's been trying to send sound through my modem! It's not even reading the sound card! Please help me configure the riptide drivers not to read the modem, and the sound card instead.