Re: [SLUG] Rant about Alsa

From: Paddy (paddy@ij.net)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2005 - 19:10:59 EST


On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 18:27 -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote:

>
> OK...
> Next question: What are you attempting to hear? As mentioned, if using
> XMMS then you also need to install the xmms-alsa RPM. Then, launch XMMS,
> go to Options|Preferences, then make sure that the Output plugin is set
> to ALSA. For things like Mplayer, you also have to specifically select
> ALSA as the default output. Most of the other apps should automatically
> choose ALSA if you set it within KDE or Gnome.
>
> For comparison, here are all my ALSA related packages:
>
> [kwan@deepthought kwan]$ rpm -qa "*alsa*"
> xmms-alsa-1.2.10-1.1.fr
> gnome-alsamixer-0.9.6-2.fr
> alsa-driver-1.0.5a-1
> alsa-lib-1.0.4-1.1.fc1.fr
> alsaplayer-0.99.76-1.fr
> alsa-utils-1.0.4-1.1.fc1.fr
> kernel-module-alsa-1.0.5a-1_2.4.22_1.2199.nptl
> alsa-lib-devel-1.0.4-1.1.fc1.fr

snip;

Thanks! I'll play with it and see what it takes. Next time I write
Alan Cox, I'll pull his chain.

Paddy

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