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
