Hi, FYI: you don't even need to have a working OS to have a CD play to your speakers. cdcd and the like display useful info and control the CD player but the sound goes from your CD drive directly to the sound card by that little wire that connects both, thus bypassing any software driver, device ...
esdplay should be a good start to check if you can have sound, it's more "direct" than xmms :-) check devices, device permissions, boot-time messages , do an lsmod and check for 'sound' or other such modules,... HTH Romain Olivier Billet wrote: > Hi all, > > i'm trying to make xmms make sound... > so here's the problem: > i'm able to hear sound from "cdcd", from "gcd" or from "wmcdplay" for example > (so i can play cd's), BUT i can't hear anything from xmms ! > > what's wrong ? (ok, i think it's the output plugin -- i do not have any > libesdout.so in /lib -- but how do i do to work around ?) > > Olivier.
