> I've installed gamix and also gmix with gnome-media, but still ther's > no sound. > Furthermore alsaplayer does'nt start with a GUI, I can call it from the > command line but it yields nos sound. > xmms is also hanging as soon as I want to start ato play a track. > It seems very mysterious to me. However aplay -l yields
i admit i don't know shit about alsa. only have it running on 1 system(laptop). im replying because you say XMMS hangs when you play a track. i have the same thing, although it doesn't just hang, it locks up my laptop. i don't remember off hand what soundchip(some kind of yamaha), and i am not running unstable, but rather stable on my laptop. i can play mp3s all day long in mpg123 but everytime i hit play on XMMS bang, crash. i haven't tried to ssh to my laptop after such an event(lazy), so i usually just hit the power switch. the mixer i use is the console mixer, i forgot the name off hand(i symlink it to the word 'mixer' so i dont have to remember the name :) ), i haven't tried gamix or gmix or gnome-media or alsaplayer or aplay (see i told you i don't know shit about alsa :) ). i originally tried alsa because commercial OSS locked my system when using xmms, but alsa does the same thing, i think the only advantage to alsa in my view is that i can unload the modules if i need to, weird that i never have been able to unload oss modules, always gives device busy even if nothing is using it. i use the kernel's drivers only on my ES1370/1371 cards(my favorite card for linux) and NEVER have had a problem. works totally flawlessly. i play mp3s in xmms all day long at work everyday and this machine has been up for 71 days, with 30 virtual desktops in Xfree86 3.3.6. my machine at home i play a lot of mp3s but also unreal tournament, no reboot for 35 days, since i reinstalled it onto an software ide raid array. good luck .......try the OSS(kernel) drivers since its an ess137x card. nate