Ion wrote:
> As per your suggestion I tried to get the mixer up to see if the volume
> was muted but I couldn't get the GTK mixer () up so that I could look
> at that. In side XMMS which is the sound app I'm primarily trying to
> use to test this I have three relevant sound output option OSS, ALSA,
> eSound none of these work. XMMS just skips through all the tracks in
> the playlist.
Hmm. The only time I've had XMMS skip songs in a playlist is when the
playlist was broken, like when I changed my directory names such that
the playlist can't find the files. Usually if you can't play audio at
all, you'll get an error. Try just playing one .mp3 file directly. OR!
even better, a .wav file. Some distros have been getting scared about
copyright issues with the mp3 encoding format, so it may not be playing
because of that. I doubt it, but I'd just like to eliminate that chance.
The fact that you can't get your mixer up bothers me. What errors do
you see when you try to run it. You may have to check your system log
(likely /var/log/messages) to see what errors may be happening. That
file may also be worth checking after trying to run XMMS. Also, you
could run these programs from the command prompt, which would allow you
to see errors as they occur. I'm not sure what the executable for KDE's
mixer apps are, but XMMS can be run just by typing xmms at the command
prompt.
You may need to be root to view the system log. The command:
su -
will switch you to the root user.
> I looked into the hardware I have Omnibook 900. For audio the Docs
> list
> NewMagic MagicGraph NM2200 (NMG5) and NeoMagic Audio NMA2
> I'm guessing this is a printing error as the first part looks identical
> to the video card settings the second part though looks appropriate and
> that is what the system seems to think is for the audio.
See my comments in the lsmod section below.
> I'm now wondering if there is an automated script from knoppix I can
> run at the command prompt to configure sound. Unless that would be
> more work. Thanks
Me, too. I've never tried a Knoppix install to the hard drive. I've
also never used Debian, which is what Knoppix is based on (I think).
> nm256_audio 66652 0 (unused)
> sound 55244 0 [nm256_audio]
> soundcore 3428 2 [sound]
> ac97 2944 0 [nm256_audio]
This looks good.
> Linux Violet 2.4.26 #1 SMP Sa Apr 17 19:33:42 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
> total 28
OK, you're running a NeoMagic onboard sound card and a 2.4 kernel. You
seem to have the relavent modules loaded, and you're probably running
OSS, given the kernel version. I'd stick with the OSS output plugin for
XMMS, and see what you can come up with as far as errors out of your
mixer app and XMMS.
Chad Martin
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