linux sounds work, but no sound in medial player ?

[jbass]

Installed mandrak 10.1 -64bit, I can hear sounds when certain system things happen, such as login and logout. However when I am in the media player i get NO sound. ? Shows to be playing things back fine, but I hear nothing.

Media player is amarok. Any ideas?

 

[cquark]

Originally posted by: jbass
Installed mandrak 10.1 -64bit, I can hear sounds when certain system things happen, such as login and logout. However when I am in the media player i get NO sound. ? Shows to be playing things back fine, but I hear nothing.

Media player is amarok. Any ideas?

Try another media player like mplayer to see if the problem is your particular media player.

 

[jbass]

doesnt work with cd player either ?

 

[drag]

What sound card are you using?
What desktop enviroment are you using (KDE vs Gnome vs None)?
What drivers are you using (should be using ALSA, but some distros allow you to still use OSS)?


Right now I think that your using a onboard audio device like a nforce motherboard's and your using KDE.

KDE has a nasty little program called artsd that has a bad habit of taking over your audio card if you have a cheaper one that doesn't support real hardware mixing. This will allow kde sound stuff to work, but it will block other audio programs that are non-kde.

The fix is to use Alsa drivers and setup the dmix software mixing plugin using a configuration file called asoundrc.

see here also: http://alsa.opensrc.org/

But that is just a guess.

Another guess is open a terminal and run a program called alsamixer and make sure that your volume levels are correct.

 

[uOpt]

What drag said. You have a desktop sound manager running which is blocking the sound device. Then only applications knowing about this particular sound manager can use it.

A `killall -9 artsd` does the job well enough (for KDE).

Having said that, you should have gotten a real error message, probably "device busy". The lack of it lets the software appear in bad light.