[CLUE-Tech] sound card config

Matt Gushee mgushee at havenrock.com
Sun Oct 20 22:26:33 MDT 2002


On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:00:45PM -0600, Randy Arabie wrote:
> 
> Well, my recompile with ES1370 worked, and I get sound when I cat an audio
> file to /dev/audio.  However, I can't get any sound out of xmms.  I get an
> error box with the following message:
> 
> 	Please check that:
> 
> 	1. You have the correct output plugin selected
> 	2. No other programs is blocking the soundcard
> 	3. Your soundcard is configured properly

The only thing that comes to mind is permissions. I would guess xmms
outputs to /dev/dsp rather than /dev/audio ... and /dev/mixer might be
involved somehow.

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