My F11 box was working fine until I just recently discovered that audio no longer works. When I try to play audio using XMMS it says it can't open the audio and to check the output device, etc. The output device for XMMS is set to ALSA. My physical hardware is the onboard NVidia audio, which was working up until recently (not sure when it broke -- I don't listen to a lot of audio on my linux box.)
Any ideas what to check? All mixers are configured to use the hardware output.
On 03/21/2010 01:22 PM, John Aldrich wrote:
My F11 box was working fine until I just recently discovered that audio no longer works. When I try to play audio using XMMS it says it can't open the audio and to check the output device, etc. The output device for XMMS is set to ALSA. My physical hardware is the onboard NVidia audio, which was working up until recently (not sure when it broke -- I don't listen to a lot of audio on my linux box.)
Any ideas what to check? All mixers are configured to use the hardware output.
are your system alert sounds there?
have you tried vlc?
On 03/21/2010 01:22 PM, John Aldrich wrote:
My F11 box was working fine until I just recently discovered that audio no longer works. When I try to play audio using XMMS it says it can't open the audio and to check the output device, etc. The output device for XMMS is set to ALSA. My physical hardware is the onboard NVidia audio, which was working up until recently (not sure when it broke -- I don't listen to a lot of audio on my linux box.)
Any ideas what to check? All mixers are configured to use the hardware output.
check to make sure pulse audio is default
On Sunday 21 March 2010 20:22:16 John Aldrich wrote:
My F11 box was working fine until I just recently discovered that audio no longer works. When I try to play audio using XMMS it says it can't open the audio and to check the output device, etc. The output device for XMMS is set to ALSA. My physical hardware is the onboard NVidia audio, which was working up until recently (not sure when it broke -- I don't listen to a lot of audio on my linux box.)
Any ideas what to check? All mixers are configured to use the hardware output.
Sounds like pulseaudio isn't active. What does
ps aux | grep pulse
say? XMMS should be set to use pulse audio device. Hardware mixers should just be checked to make sure nothing is muted, and your best bet is to use pavucontrol to adjust volumes. XMMS internal volume control slider can also be used (it is synchronized with pavucontrol slider).
HTH, :-) Marko
On 03/21/2010 03:44 PM, John Aldrich wrote:
On Sunday 21 March 2010, Michael Miles wrote:
check to make sure pulse audio is default
Not to sound like a N00bie, but how? I don't really have any option to change anything.
in you player preferences check audio and make sure the audio type is pulseaudio not alsa and see if that works
if not it could try downloading vlc through add and remove software and do the same with audio preferences there Pulseaudio is the one to use for output
mmamiga6
On Sunday 21 March 2010, Michael Miles wrote:
in you player preferences check audio and make sure the audio type is pulseaudio not alsa and see if that works
if not it could try downloading vlc through add and remove software and do the same with audio preferences there Pulseaudio is the one to use for output
Although it's working now, I should point out I don't have a "pulseaudio" option in XMMS. :-) I logged out and logged back in and apparently that was enough to fix the problem.
Well I just took a look at xmms and VLC is a way better player to handle almost any format. No wonder you were having problems tracking your problem down, VLC is what you want
On 03/22/2010 03:03 AM, John Aldrich wrote:
On Sunday 21 March 2010, Michael Miles wrote:
in you player preferences check audio and make sure the audio type is pulseaudio not alsa and see if that works
if not it could try downloading vlc through add and remove software and do the same with audio preferences there Pulseaudio is the one to use for output
Although it's working now, I should point out I don't have a "pulseaudio" option in XMMS. :-) I logged out and logged back in and apparently that was enough to fix the problem.
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 06:03 -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
I don't have a "pulseaudio" option in XMMS.
Where did you look?
It's in its preferences, audio i/o plugins section, output plugin.