On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 12:28 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > gary wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 10:40 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > > > >>gary wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 16:45 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Hi, > >>>> I cannot get sound from mplayer, sound in KDE,streaming audio (xmms), > >>>>Sound card detection works but mplayer is mute with the error:- > >>>> > >>>>Checking audio filter chain for 22050Hz/2ch/s16le 22050Hz/2ch/s16le... > >>>>AF_pre: 22050Hz/2ch/s16le > >>>>Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. > >>>>Audio: no sound > >>>> > >>>>How do you 'open/initialize' a sound device. > >>>>The chip is an 'RealTek ALC655 (VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97' > >>>> > >>>> Thanks david > >>>> > >>> > >>> Go to mplayer>preferences>audio - try alsa or oss > >>> -- gary > >>> > >> > >>gary, > >> I tried oss before and did not work,now this morning it is, > >>still no alsa which is the sound sys I wont working. > >> > >> thanks david > >> > > > > Make sure you have all necessary alsa packages - guessing the reboot, > > and sound being reloaded helped. ?? You can also add "ao=alsa to your > > mplayer.config. --gary > > > This is getting weird,after running a .wvm via mplayer theres no sound > from oss,then the desktop freezes. I cannot run bash history with > up/down keys and needs log out /log in to revive the desktop. > I think it's a udev problem not giving correct perms,this I know little off. > > Thanks david > > Try a different kernel - I've gone back to 2.6.13-1.1532 --gary