Subject: Re: XMMS and aRts output not functional YDL2.1
From: Charlie Watts (cewatts@frontier.net)
Date: Wed Nov 28 2001 - 13:36:51 MST
I assume that BenH will import the mainline kernel changes, or that the
iBook audio stuff will eventually get imported into mainline ...
So all will be good eventually. :-)
If folks are comfortable building kernels, then by all means - try a new
one, see if it heals what ails you. But if you aren't comfortable
experimenting I'd probably just wait a bit longer. :-)
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, frazz@lump.mine.nu wrote:
> I'm the same person that posted that aRts is now functional with
> the official kernel tree. So obviously there is something more to it than
> that. And Yes I am able to get xmms to work using OSS drivers, but then I
> loose all of the KDE sounds, defintely not a good solution.
>
> -Frazz
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Feb 1904, Charlie Watts wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, frazz@lump.mine.nu wrote:
> >
> > > I am having troubel with XMMS 1.2.4-12 that comes with YDL 2.1 and
> > > the aRts output plugin that is included with it. It does not seem to
> > > be functional. I get the following error...
> > >
> > > arts_init error: loading the aRts backend "/usr/lib/libartscbackend.la"
> > > failed
> >
> > There are known problems with the aRts server and PPC in KDE at this time.
> >
> > There was a posting earlier today that the brand-newest kernels have fixed
> > this, but the brand-newest BenH kernel didn't fix it for me, and the
> > mainline kernels don't have audio drivers for my iBook2.
> >
> > My solution? Kill the aRts server and let xmms use the esound plugin.
> > Works great ... but only for esound-compatible apps.
> >
> >
>
>
-- Charlie Watts cewatts@frontier.net Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/
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