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I am running Enlightenment DR16 on Debian. I am trying to play music on XMMS through my USB powered speakers. Whenever I try to play a music file either on XMMS or any other media player, it gives me an error saying that there are no sound devices or drivers or something. But my audio plays fine if I use the laptop speakers (I am on a laptop). How can I set it to recognize my USB Speakers and play audio through them? Thanks in advance for the help.
I'd also like to offer $5.00 USD through PayPal to the first person who can assist me in getting my audio to work. Thanks again.
Last edited by SentralOrigin; 10-25-2006 at 08:38 PM.
You guys are taking the total wrong approach here. Debian has great hardware support, you shouldn't need to compile anything (w00t! confuse the newbie).
Can you see is in your mixer or by running lsusb (as root in a terminal)?
If yes, you should just need to set up xmms to use them instead of your other ones. Right click in the main xmms window and click on options>preferences.
Make sure ALSA is selected for your output plugin.
Click on configure.
Under the audio device dripdown, click on your speakers, they might have a funny name as ALSA cares about the chip they use, not the lable on the box. It will most likely have (hw:1,0) next to it.
Click OK a bunch and restart the currently playing song (if any) and see it it works.
You may need to adjust your mixes settings still. To do that you should be abe to click on the speaker on the task bar and click mixer (KDE) or double click it (Gnome). Thre should be a device dropdown with your speakers listed there. Click on it and make sure the sliders arn't all the way down, or muted.
Hope this helps.
(give the $5 to a dev, they need it more than freeloaders like me.)
I still get the same error message saying that it can't play audio
But the speakers do show up in lsusb
I use Enlightenment so I don't have a taskbar but I know the volume isn't muted because I can hear sound on my mainboard speaker
I think I need a driver or something because the Debian definitely recognizes my speakers are there but it can't play audio with them because it thinks they can't play music even though they know it's for playing audio
Last edited by SentralOrigin; 10-26-2006 at 11:52 PM.
Mainboard speaker... As in the beeper of evil? Thats totally unrelated to PCM audio. You need to make SURE that the USB SPEAKERS are unmuted, as you are probaly looking at the laptop's built in speaker's mixer settings.
Try entering this on be terminal "alsamixer -c 1"
That will show you ONLY the mixer for the USB audio device.
You guys are taking the total wrong approach here. Debian has great hardware support, you shouldn't need to compile anything (w00t! confuse the newbie).
Yeah, you're probably right, but I decided tackle the problem that I knew how to handle.
I think the only problem with make is that you were in the wrong directory. You have to cd to the directory where you extracted the files to, then type make and hit enter.
I was able to record the error message in Aterm when I first try to play a song in XMMS. After this error message, I get the usual pop-up one from the screenshot before this one
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