sometime sound in FC2?
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sat Sep 4 04:27:51 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 19:30, Dave Stevens wrote:
> I upgraded fro FC1 to FC2 mostly to get the new kernel. I saw the benefits
> right away, but there were some issues. One was that my trusty xmms stopped
> working on mp3s that were ok before. I get a message every time telling me
> that output is blocked, and am advised to check that no other program is
> running and using the device. Fair enough, it wasn't a very high priority so
> I parked it and got on with my routine use of the computer.
>
> One thing I did was to download the dynebolic live CD (very interesting piece
> of Rasta software, with good media capabilities). Using xmms on that distro
> (based on Knoppix) worked just fine. So I think that eliminates hardware
> failure. But I didn't see what else to do.
>
> Today, while looking at a web site I clicked on a flash animation link and got
> sound! for the first time in two or three months. Wel, what gives? I tried to
> open an mp3 directly in Firefox (0.9.3) and that works ok. I thought maybe
> the browser was blocking xmms (although it didn't with FC1) so I logged out,
> logged back in and tried xmms. No go. Firefox still plays ok.
>
> Ideas?
>
install xmms-mp3
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