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Ozymandias
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 7:07 pm    Post subject: sound Reply with quote

Hi there,

can anybody give me a few hints on the sound stuff (alsa) under gentoo, I don't know much about linux and sound, but I want the following:
1: automatic mixing of sounds, so that xmms can play mp3, gaim can make noise and even GNOME can do some sliding sounds and still here my emails coming in.
2: normal users to be able to play sounds too. Now only root can, even when I use 'su' still xmms cannot play. I already added the user to the audio group. any hints here ?

whell, thanks in advance, greetz Ozy
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tux-fan
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 8:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

see the desktop guide (chapter 3 --> Sound)
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/desktop.html

p.s. works perfect for me but don't forget to disable all onboard-sound-hardware if U're using a SBlife card as I do :)
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Ozymandias
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanx, but already had that one

But I found out that esd was using my devices (I use GNOME), and esd does all the things I want. So now xmms uses the esd plugin and it works, only some jitter now and then, will look into that. Now only to get mplayer to play audio to esd and ready I am.

but thanx

greetz Ozy
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 12, 2002 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

One thing i found helpful with sound in gentoo was to enable oss in the USE settings in /etc/make.conf. I had compiled mplayer 2 times without getting sound before i added oss to my USE and recompiled one more time and sound worked
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Forgive the newbie-ish question, but when would you want OSS vs non-OSS? Does gnome use one, and kde use the other?

I have sound working under kde 3 just by following the instructions, but haven't tested under gnome...
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 2:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ozymandias wrote:

But I found out that esd was using my devices (I use GNOME), and esd does all the things I want. So now xmms uses the esd plugin and it works, only some jitter now and then, will look into that. Now only to get mplayer to play audio to esd and ready I am.


have a look at xine to play video files.
it has an esd-output plugin.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 13, 2002 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hi,

thanx but tried xine, but doesn't work: I have a SavagePro PM133 xine hangs X on startup (known bug of Savage drivers)

greetz Ozy
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