> What might cause xmms to go from audibly playing a song to seemingly > playing a song (progress bar moving, lines bouncing up and down as the > song plays) without producing any actual sound? > > I was fiddling with installing/deinstalling alsa, esd, and other fun > toys at the time, so I'm not exactly sure what I did. It seems like > alsa "shouldn't" affect the situation, as I never specified any sound > modules for it, and as near as I can tell, esd's only effect is to cause > xmms to squawk that /dev/dsp is busy. > > This is on a brand spanking new debian install -- used a netinstall cd > and upgraded to unstable from there.
Two possiblities come to mind: - The standard advice is to open KMix and make sure you don't have whatever channel xmms uses turned all the way down. - You don't say if you're running KDE, but on my KDE box I have a choice at any time between aRts and non-aRts sound. Usually I leave aRts on, and then I get sound from my KDE apps. But if I want sound from a non- aRts app, I have to go into the Control Center and turn aRts off (Sound & Multimedia -> Sound System -> aRts -> Start aRts sound server on KDE startup). It's pretty annoying, but there you have it. Good luck, Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
