Hi, I had problems using xmms myself with alsa. Try alsamixer instead and get free from xmms bugs. cheers bkw
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:34:43 +0100 Stephan Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I have a Soundblaster Live and didn't have any problems with alsa > until rc3. > > I'm using xmms with the xmms-alsa output plugin. Since rc3 xmms > segfaults sometimes with the message: > > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:292:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS > failed: Nicht genügend Hauptspeicher verfügbar > Unable to install hw params > Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x23e5d)! > Segmentation fault > > "Nicht genügend Hauptspeicher verfügbar" means "not enough memory", > the main memory, but I have 768 MB physical memory and about 600 MB > swap. That shoud be enough. > > Switching to the oss output plugin xmms doesn't crash but it skips > sometimes songs or skips part of them. xmms produces the messages: > > ** WARNING **: SNDCTL_DSP_SPEED ioctl failed: Nicht genügend > Hauptspeicher verfügbar > ** WARNING **: SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT ioctl failed: Nicht genügend > Hauptspeicher verfügbar > > I can reproduce the errors with ogg123 using alsa09 or oss output > sometimes, but much less than using xmms. alsaplayer doesn't have any > problems (*knock on wood*). > > Switching back to 0.9.0rc1+2 solves the problem for days, but then it > started again. Since then, there was a new alsa package, so I tried > 0.9.0rc3-0.3 (updated all alsa and libasound packages). It doesn't > solve the problem. I don't see any reasons why this error occurs. > The systems neither had a high load nor was much memory used (values > from xosview). > > Does somebody have the same problems? What could this be? > > The system ist Debian/Testing. > > Shade and sweet water! > > Stephan > > -- > | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | WWW: http://fsing.fs.uni-sb.de/~stse/ | > | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.fs.uni-sb.de/~stse/pgp.html | > -- ################################# # Bachman Kharazmi # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # uin: 24089491 # # phone: +46 737 702 170 ################################# -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
