xmms and OSS vs. ALSA

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xmms and OSS vs. ALSA

by francis keyes :: Rate this Message:

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Hi All,

I use xmms as my main media player.  For a long time now I've had the following issue with it:  sometimes it works only with the ALSA output plugin selected and sometimes it works only with the OSS output plugin selected.
When it doesn't work, it gives the message "Can't open audio. Please check that your soundcard is configured properly, you have to correct output plugin selected and no other application is blocking the soundcard."
At the moment, it is only working with the OSS plugin.  I don't understand this as I thought that my system under ccrma would be using ALSA all the time.  Can anyone explain?

Here are some system specs:

Distro: Fedora 8
kernel: 2.6.24.7-1.rt3.2.fc8.ccrmart
rpm -qa | grep xmms:

xmms-flac-1.1.4-3.fc8
xmms-mp3-1.2.10-5.lvn6
xmms-1.2.10-36.fc7
xmms-libs-1.2.10-36.fc7
xmms-faad2-2.0-21.20050131.lvn8

Thanks a lot!


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