No sound in Drake 9.2

Doogee · Post by **Doogee** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 4:17 am

Havent posted here in a long time but just last night i decided to install Mandrake 9.2.

Everything has gone smoothly apart from, as the topic suggests, i have no sound.

The operating system seems to beleive i have a soundcard, and it is succesfully detected and is setup using alsa.

The problem is that when i play mp3s in xmms the little bars move as if i was playing the song but no sound comes out. There is no sound anywhere else either.

I have done the basic stuff like checking that the volume is up and that but to no avail, i still have no sound.

Any suggestions would be really great....

Master of Reality · Post by **Master of Reality** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 7:28 am

perhaps the permissions are wrong... what does "ls -l /dev/dsp" say? and while your at it what does "lsof /dev/dsp" output?
lsof will show if another program is using the sound. Xmms should give an error if either of these are wrong, but it might not.

Doogee · Post by **Doogee** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 7:38 am

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[dan@dans-computer dan]$ ls -l /dev/dsp
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root            9 Nov 13 19:56 /dev/dsp -> sound/dsp

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[root@dans-computer root]# lsof /dev/dsp
[root@dans-computer root]#

Tux · Post by **Tux** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 8:10 am

What did you use to change the volume? If you used an OSS mixer this could be the problem. Try using alsamixer, or gnome-alsamixer.

Doogee · Post by **Doogee** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 8:17 am

i just went into alsa mxer and the relevant volumes were already turned up.

Tux · Post by **Tux** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 9:07 am

Did you try to play audio in xmms using the ALSA plugin? It could be that it was trying to use OSS and OSS emulation is not actually turned on.

Also, try this for good measure:

chmod a+rw /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/sequencer /dev/midi

A /sbin/lsmod|grep snd would be nice too

Doogee · Post by **Doogee** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 2:41 pm

i actually dont have an alsa pluging for xmms.
where could i get one?

Tux · Post by **Tux** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 4:34 pm

I was sure it came with the standard xmms release. Well it can be found here here. I think there is a high chance there will also be 'drake RPMs for it at the Penguin Liberation Front if you prefer to go about it that way.
You could even add PLF to your urpmi sources.

Doogee · Post by **Doogee** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 11:35 pm

Maybe ill just go back to slackware, she never failed me.

The alsa-xmms thing wont ocmpile

Tux · Post by **Tux** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 9:27 am

xmms-alsa-0.9.12-3mdk.i586.rpm you lilly livered Aussie!

Doogee · Post by **Doogee** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 3:32 am

ive switched to fedora now

Tux · Post by **Tux** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 9:48 am