xmms plugins do not appear in the configuration dialog

Erdie

After emerging some visualisation plugins (e. g. opengl spectrum and others ..) I cannot see the new installed plugins in the configuration dialog but the files are really located in /usr/lib/xmms/Visualisation/. I tried to reemerge xmms but without success. Does anybody have an idea what can be wrong here? Do I need an additional USE flag perhaps? I tried this on an x86 machine, on my other AMD64 machine I did not get these problems.

thanks
Erdie

thepi · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 352 Location: Tokyo, Japan

Well actually it should be /usr/lib/xmms/Visualization

If that's not the point I've no idea

For me it works to just put the plugins in the said directory. Did you try and search the forums as well as the bug database?

Good Luck
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Erdie · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject:

Up to now I did not find a similar problem in the forums an bugzilla but I have to search again in bugzilla because there is a lot of stuff related to xmms and perhaps I have overseen it. But you are right, the directory is called "Visualization" .. also in my machine ;-)

masteroftheuniverse · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 259

Go to /usr/lib/xmms/Visualization and rename files with no extension to have a ".so" extension.
XMMS checks for only those files I guess. And this is one problem I discovered today that the Gentoo Forums didn't have the answer to... UNTIL NOW!