On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:19:38PM -0800, Didier Malenfant wrote:
> Sorry if this is a re-post, I'm not sure the first one went through
> since I wasn't subscribed on the list.
>
> I've installed Debian 2.2r2 on a cheap Powerspec 8250 computer which
> comes with a Soundblaster PCI 128 sound card (ES1371 chip).
>
> I can't get xmms to work, after adding my username to the audio group
> the mp3 file starts playing and stops immediately.
For starters, maybe try to run xmms in root to see if the problem stops. If it
does, then its a permissions problem.
eg if,
"ls -al /dev/dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jun 24 2001 /dev/dsp"
then,
"usermod -G audio username"
> After a little bit of investigation I came up with the following:
>
> The card seems detected (dmesg):
>
> es1371: version v0.22 time 19:13:40 Nov 18 2000
> es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x03
> es1371: found es1371 rev 3 at io 0xc800 irq 5
> es1371: features: joystick 0x0
> es1371: codec vendor (0x000000) revision 0 (0x00)
> es1371: codec features none
> es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement
>
> The modules are loaded (lsmod):
>
> Module Size Used by
> nls_cp437 3880 1 (autoclean)
> serial 19640 0 (autoclean)
> mousedev 3600 0 (unused)
> usbmouse 1624 0 (unused)
> usbcore 41804 0 [usbmouse]
> input 2688 0 [mousedev usbmouse]
> rtl8139 11144 1
> sound 56364 0 (unused)
> soundlow 368 0 [sound]
> es1371 26544 0
> soundcore 2440 7 [sound es1371]
> vfat 9408 0 (unused)
> ntfs 35012 1
> nfs 43820 1
> lockd 41720 1 [nfs]
> sunrpc 55452 1 [nfs lockd]
> unix 11336 227 (autoclean)
>
> but /dev/sndstat is empty:
>
> OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
> Load type: Driver loaded as a module
> Kernel: Linux blue 2.2.18pre21 #1 Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000 i686
> Config options: 0
>
> Installed drivers:
>
> Card config:
>
> Audio devices:
>
> Synth devices:
>
> Midi devices:
>
> Timers:
> 0: System clock
>
> Mixers:
>
>
>
> Any ideas why /dev/sndstat comes up empty, or any pointers?
>
> Thanks,
> -D
>
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