Sometimes it helps to ask the obvious questions. Here I go:
Are you sure that you can play other sounds? Are any of your audio channels
muted? You can check using alsamixer. Are audio permissions set correctly? Do
you own /dev/dsp? Do you own /dev/mixer?
There was a bug in a previous version of ALSA (whatever version was standard
on Gentoo in November) where on certain laptops (such as my HP) if you
unmuted all audio channels there would be no sound. Are you using ALSA? If so
try muting all channels, and unmuting them one at a time to see if you get
any sound. This is fixed in all ALSA releases since December, but Mandrake
might be using that older version.
I hope some of these might help.
Richard Esplin
On Monday 16 February 2004 22:31, Nathan Cooprider wrote:
> okay, I have installed apt-get, updated, upgraded, installed xmms-mp3
> (see output below) and I still can't play mp3s. Any ideas?
>
> Nathan
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