On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 H:31, Aron Smith wrote:
i got that 2 days ago... the problem ended up being
the line in the /etc/modules.conf file for the sound card somehow 
vanished, in my case i have a soundblaster128 card so i added
" alias sound-slot-0 es1371 "
this fixed it ))

LtCdData

> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 07:37, Doug Roberts wrote:
> > > > > ** snip**
> > > > > HI again
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry to take so long getting back to you, but I been a little
> > > > > busy.
> > > > >
> > > > > When logged in as root I looked at aRTs settings in KDE control
> > > > > center. aRTs was turned off, so I turned it back on and got this
> > > > > error message when trying to apply the new settings.
> > > > >
> > > > > Something like this:
> > > > >
> > > > > "Error while initializing sound driver.
> > > > >
> > > > > device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or
> > > > > directory)
> > > > >
> > > > > The sound server will continue, using the null output device"
> > > > >
> > > > > I left the new settings in place and rebooted to see, on the off
> > > > > chance, hoping maybe it would work. But no such luck. I can still
> > > > > play a music CD through kscd, I can't get xmms to see the CD drive
> > > > > atm..I'll play with that one later.
> > > > > I did some investigating through the aRTs control....I have no
> > > > > default.arts-env file. I am beginning to wonder if I have aRTs
> > > > > installed at all.
> > > >
> > > > That's really puzzling.  As far as I know, aRts is used by
> > > > kde-related apps - which, I would have thought, means kscd - while
> > > > xmms is, I believe, a gnome app.  Anyone care to comment?
> > >
> > > I assume that you have the CD player plugins for xmms enabled?
> >
> > Not sure Aron. Where would I check for that and how?
>
> Start XMMS ----->options (click on top left corner, drop down list
> appars)
> select visulations
> select visualiation -plugins
> select  Audio I/O plugins
> CD Audio player should be enabled
> if not configure it and enable it
>
> > Doug Roberts
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Registered Linux User No: 160487
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> >
> >
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