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Hey guys. I've been loving Gentoo long time now, but something weird has been happening this week and I'm wondering if anyone has any clues. I listen to a lot of audio, and I like to play Flash sites and stuff like that. Lately, audio has been giving me strangeness. So for instance, XMMS works fine for streaming/ogg/mp3, but RealPlayer doesn't. Xine/Totem can play movies fine, but Flash movies get no sound as well.
Any idears what might be causing this? I'm using ~x86, and this only started happening this week.
Thanks!
Any idears what might be causing this? I'm using ~x86, and this only started happening this week.
Thanks!
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Re: Sound whackiness!!!
Mon, August 29, 2005 - 3:16 PMCheck into what sound deamons are running. I belive Gnome uses esound, KDE uses something else, I cona't remeber what, but is both are going at the same time, which they can, you might get a strange hodge-podge like you are complaining of..
Is your RealPlayer current? Is it from the RealAudo site or the gentoo package that uses the helix player? Of do you have both and they do the package conflict lap dance? Same thing with the flash player: are you using the player from the Shockwave site or net-www/gplflash, the GPL plugin? See, when you use ~x86, you get more choices than you may really want. -
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Re: Sound whackiness!!!
Mon, August 29, 2005 - 6:41 PMTrue that.. but I always use ~x86 only with selective packages in my /etc/portage/*
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Re: Sound whackiness!!!
Tue, August 30, 2005 - 1:03 AM---- which is a bit different then having ~x86 in your make.conf USE variables.
If you want to run Gentoo as a test server with a limited number of packages, that would be O. K., or with a minimal desktop---say X and fluxbox. But if you want to run it day to day, ~x86 is a really bad idea.
Actually, all I use is X and fluxbox. After a year with MAC OS X (with Gentoo for OS X as well of course) it is kind of nice to have a minimalistic user environment. -
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Re: Sound whackiness!!!
Tue, August 30, 2005 - 2:12 PMI use ~x86 only of a couple packages.. not for the whole sustem.. and I want it like that I like to test some stuff.. like Xorg and KDE always ~x86..
I cant live another way.
if I find a bug I report it or fix it myself.
I guess running ~x86 is not that you cant use it. is that you have to know what you doing.
Cheers
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Re: Sound whackiness!!!
Tue, August 30, 2005 - 4:36 PMBeen using ~x86 in make.conf for over 2 months now, and haven't really bumped into any problems, except for my sound whackiness lately. I wouldn't be surprised that it's the underlying problem. I'll run a few more tests, because it's really whacky that XMMS and Totem work, but not Helix/RealPlayer or Macromedia Flash. Is this some sneaky movement against Big Brother's money making machines I wonder? LOL! -
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Re: Sound whackiness!!!
Fri, October 7, 2005 - 2:18 PMWhat kernel support to you have? Are you running alsa? If so, drivers correct? OSS support? etc..etc.. need a lot more info.
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Re: Sound whackiness!!!
Wed, October 12, 2005 - 11:33 AMYes I think the most logical explanation is that there is a massive underground conspiracy to make your sound not work perfectly.
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