Problems with sound

[Kareem Shehata]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Walter
> Dnes
> Sent: Friday 21 September 2007 22:04
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Problems with sound
> 
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:18:15PM -0400, Kareem Shehata wrote
> 
> > Just guessing off the top of my head: one is using the OSS interface,
> > while the other is using ALSA.  What device are you pointing each one
> > to?
> 
>   With xmms deprecated, and audacious not working, I'm using realplayer
> to listen to live365.com.  lsof indicates that "realplay" is using
> /dev/sound/dsp and /dev/sound/mixer.  realplayer is working properly.
> Everything was working fine until a couple of days ago when I upgraded
> the kernel<g>.  I copied over my old .config and ran "make oldconfig".
> Here's a screenshot from "make menuconfig".  I'm using alsa with OSS
> emulation...
<snip>

Well, that looks like realplayer is using the OSS interface.  As usual, I
think Len might have this one: if you upgraded the kernel, and the kernel is
using a newer version of the ALSA headers than the libraries that are
installed on your system, that would explain this behaviour.  By using the
OSS API realplayer and mpg123 will work just fine, but anything that uses
the ALSA libraries (I'm guessing mpg321 and audacity) will fail because of
the mismatch.  I'd suggest following Len's instructions to check the
versions, and then installing the correct ALSA libraries to match the new
kernel.

-kms

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