XMMS freezes with ALSA

Cluster · Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 2:57 am Post subject: XMMS freezes with ALSA

I realize that this topic has been discussed at length on this board, because I did a search and read through all pertinent topics, but a solution for my particular twist has not been mentioned.

Here's the problem: I run the latest version of ALSA and XMMS with Gnome (so no Arts). Before yesterday, XMMS, as well as any other sound application, could play sounds through my sound card. Yesterday I did "emerge world", which updated everything. Since then, XMMS would freeze as soon as I pressed Play and begin eating 100% of the CPU until I did "killall xmms".

Seeing that it's a modules problem, I recompiled the kernel, reinstalled the kernel modules, re-emerged alsa-driver, updated modules, and restarted. Startup messages indicate that my driver was started successfully. I can currently play my music through mpg123 and mplayer with no problem. Even after re-emerging "alsa-xmms", however, XMMS still refuses to play my music. Running it from the root console does not yield any error messages.

Any help is appreciated.

Cluster · Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 6:15 pm Post subject:

bump.

Peach · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 5:22 pm Post subject:

if I'm not wrong while tring to fix a bug on xmms-r15, I read that an

Tiganu · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 8:08 pm Post subject:

after updating the kernel you have to re-emerge alsa-drivers

nouse66 · Apprentice Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 194

i'm having the same problem. i just tried remerging alsa, alsa-xmms, and xmms to the latest versions but that was no help. it does work with the oss driver though and sound works in all my other apps.

Noltha · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Spain

I was using the search engine of the forums, because I have a similar problem, and, I find this post.

I think I can help with this (if noone do it yet)

Just emerge xmms-arts and select the output plugin called "arts" in the preferences of xmms

But now, my problem is very similar, It is a conflict between arts and mplayer, I have readed that it may have a solution:

search for ~/mplayer/config, and set kind "arts" on any option (I dont know what yet...) Im going to try it when IM at home.

Edited: The solution for mplayer-arts thread:
in mplayer.config: just change ao=sdl whit ---> ao=arts

Byez (and sorry about my english

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nouse66 · Apprentice Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 194

arts is for kde though. i'm just running fluxbox so why would i want arts?