Subject: Re: Sound on PBG3 FireWire w/ YDL 2.1
From: Dan Cook (inundata@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 02:50:30 MST
Neill,
Thank you very much for your valuable advice. MP3s now play perfectly well
on my Pismo now (yay!!). Just for the record:
- modules.conf was correct
- the proper sound module was already loaded (dmasound_pmac)
- changing from esd to oss did the trick
- although starting up esd did give me the beepy-thing, it still didn't
work (I'd tried this before on the advice of one of the archived posts)
I now have a few other questions though:
1) Both the KDE and GNOME options said that they would load the arTS
sound thingy on startup. Is it still necessary to have that on? And is
there any way to have the system load OSS on bootup instead of esd, and not
have to do the whole lsmod rmmod modprobe dance on every bootup? I've heard
something about adding stuff into a folder called /etc/rc...
2) Is there any way I can modify the CD Player to also play music using
OSS, or is there a CD player embedded in XMMS that I'm not aware of? (BTW,
XMMS beats the stuffing outof Sonique or iTunes).
3) And finally, is there any way to enable the volume up/down buttons on
the Pismo? I've seen a couple of posts on this in the archives, but I don't
know how to use them.
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Thanks for reading,
Dan Cook
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Neill Miller" <neillm@thecodefactory.org>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: Sound on PBG3 FireWire w/ YDL 2.1
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 01:23:02 -0000
> "Dan Cook" <inundata@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've already tried things like using aumix, cat [bigfile] >
/etc/dsp,
> > running esd, killing and then running esd.
>
> Hello Dan,
> I'll take a stab at this because I haven't had any problems with sound on
my Pismo. However, since I run a heavily modified version of YDL 2.0, there
may be other issues with YDL 2.1 that I'm not aware of. First guess - make
sure the proper sound module is loaded.
>
> Assuming you're using the dmasound_pmac module, make sure you have the
following lines in a file called /etc/modules.conf
>
> alias sound-slot-0 dmasound_pmac
> alias sound-slot-1 dmasound_pmac
> alias sound-service-0-0 dmasound_pmac
> alias sound-service-0-3 dmasound_pmac
> alias sound-service-1-0 dmasound_pmac
>
> You can see which modules are loaded by typing "lsmod". You should see
something like "dmasound_pmac" if it's loaded properly. Otherwise, try
manually loading the module by typing "modprobe dmasound_pmac".
(Personally, I always compile sound/OSS/100% soundblaster compatible options
into the kernel, and it always just works nicely, so it's been a while since
I've messed with this).
>
> If the module is already loaded and sound still does not work properly,
you can try to remove it by typing "rmmod dmasound_pmac" and then re-loading
it by typing "modprobe dmasound_pmac" again (and checking to make sure using
"lsmod" that is was actually re-loaded). When you start esd, you should
hear the startup sound it makes - although I don't use it much personally.
>
> If you're still not having any luck, kill the esd process ("killall -9
esd"), reload the sound module, and try configuring XMMS to use OSS sound
output (Options-->Preferences-->Output Plugin) instead of eSound and see if
that works.
>
> Also, try adjusting the volume and speaker slider bars in "gmix" - making
sure neither are muted.
>
> Let us know where you're at after trying that.
>
> hope that helps,
> -Neill.
>
> --
> http://www.thecodefactory.org/neillm
>
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