From: Haines B. <br...@ha...> - 2002-12-05 20:35:50
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In my effort to get xine to play sound, I was informed that audio cd playing was not much of a test, and that instead a good starting point would be to play .mp3 or .wav files with xmms. Results were ambivalent. Usually, but not always, I could play a .wav file with xmms. What did play were old brief sound files. A new and more serious sound file wouldn't play. By that I mean that xmms, when told to play the new file, instead simply pops up its file select window, which seems to mean it did not recognize the file format. So it seems older/simpler wav files are played, but not newer/bigger files. I tried an MP3 file, and that didn't work at all. I also tried to install the emu10k1 driver for my Audigy card. I managed to compile it but it failed to install because the ac97_codec module was busy. That was so even though lsmod sugests that it's not being used. I tried to have root from a console rmmod that module, but even that didn't work because it was busy. Should I try a boot after the alias statement for that module has been removed from /etc/modules.conf? Or is there a better way? Haines Brown |