[alsa, xine (yes yet another)] can't get it to work

zuigzoen · Last edited by zuigzoen on Mon Oct 07, 2002 10:25 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi,
I've been browsing and searching this forum to find an answer to my problem, but without any luck.

I don't seem to be the only one who has troubles with the combination of xine and alsa.

I've tried the following:
# xine -A alsa09
# xine -A alsa05

then I read a post telling me to try: "xine -A --help" to see what sound options I had. unfortunately it does not seem to find my alsa driver with which xmms plays my mp3's happily.

I've also read the faq on the xine pages, but even there i could not find a solution to my problem.

I am hoping there is someone here that can help me with this prob.

thanks in advance

[edit] typo's [/edit]
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pilla

Don't you have some typos there? alsa == xine in some places?

pilla · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 10:22 pm Post subject:

have you tried -a (audio channel selection) ?

zuigzoen

zuigzoen · Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2002 10:36 pm Post subject:

pilla · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 12:39 am Post subject:

Do you have alsa in your USE flags?

zuigzoen · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 12:51 am Post subject:

do you mean something like:"use=alsa emerge alsa-ui" ?
I hav tried this, but it still does not show the alsa driver in xine. I just don't get it anymore. prolly I'm forgetting or overlooking one tiny thing somewhere

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pilla · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 1:09 am Post subject:

I mean the USE flag in /etc/make.conf and then

zuigzoen · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 1:15 am Post subject:

[quote="Bloody Bastard"]I mean the USE flag in /etc/make.conf and then

pilla · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 1:23 am Post subject:

I am not rac nor kanuslupus nor delta407, but I will try to introduce it.

You have a file called make.conf in your /etc directory. It has some configurations that are used by portage to build your packages. One of these magical settings is the USE variable. It tells ebuilds that you are installing what they must give support to. For example, if you want alsa support in your programs, you should set it. For your case, you should want to add alsa to it so xine-libs is compiled with alsa support.

You can also disable support to some features by using - in front of a feature.

zuigzoen · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 1:30 am Post subject: thanks!

Okay thanks for your help so far i'll start reading that HOW-TO. And of course the FAQ.
but first it's time for some serious sleeping. Otherwise I'll be trashing my system instead of making it more complete

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zuigzoen · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 2:12 am Post subject: It works !!!!

Okay, couldn't sleep before I had xine to work with alsa which it now does, thanks bloody bastard!
I think I'll put on a movie and fall a sleep on the couch

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pilla · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 2:29 am Post subject: Re: It works !!!!

OK. Have a good night!