On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 19:35, Alexander B. Cheng wrote: > Hello All, > > I've just compiled kernel 2.6.3 and have things running pretty well. > However now when I try to start XMMS I get the following error: > > libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory > > ** Warning **: alsa_get_mixer(): Attaching to mixer hw:1 failed: No such > device > > I've even removed XMMS with apt and re-installed it but I still get the > error and I'm at a loss on what my next step would be. XMMS used to > work fine before the new kernel was installed.
The first error is a non-fatal error telling you mikmod isn't installed. If you don't know what mods (in the music sense) are, I wouldn't worry about it. The second one is XMMS complaining it can't access the ALSA mixer. This could mean one of several things. 1) ALSA, or it's driver for your sound card wasn't compilied in, or as a module. Check your config. 2) You don't have permissions to access the devices. This shouldn't be a problem if it worked before. Check that you have permission to use the devices in /dev/snd/. If you followed standard Debian pratice, this means that you are part of group audio. 3) The various ALSA start scripts have buggered things up again. This seems to happen to me far too often. Have a look in /etc/init.d/alsa* and see what happens when you run them as root. It's most likely 1. Either ALSA isn't loaded, your hardware's driver isn't loaded, or it's a module, and you haven't loaded it. Edward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
