no sound in games after xmms

antifa · n00b Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 31

Hi all,

I'm getting no sound in any of my games after installing xmms. I'm not getting any error messages from the games themselves either. xmms seems to work fine and plays anything I throw at it. So I ran a strace from a few games and here's all it turned up.

read(5, 0xbffff76c, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

I got that message from 3 different games, I'm thinking that might be it. But then I have no idea how to fix it. All my modules load fine. Any suggestions?

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lsmod output

Module Size Used by Not tainted
af_packet 8776 1 (autoclean)
snd-seq-midi 3168 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-opl3-synth 8700 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-seq-midi-emul 4432 0 (autoclean) [snd-opl3-synth]
snd-seq-instr 4816 0 (autoclean) [snd-opl3-synth]
snd-ainstr-fm 1348 0 (autoclean) [snd-opl3-synth]
snd-seq-oss 22688 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 3240 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 36492 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-opl3-synth snd-seq-midi-emul snd-seq-instr snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-mixer-oss 9088 1
snd-pcm-oss 34596 0
snd-es1938 11076 9
snd-opl3-lib 5376 0 [snd-opl3-synth snd-es1938]
snd-hwdep 3424 0 [snd-opl3-lib]
snd-pcm 49760 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-es1938]
snd-timer 9856 0 [snd-seq snd-opl3-lib snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 2864 0 [snd-es1938]
snd-rawmidi 12320 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3808 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-opl3-synth snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-opl3-lib snd-rawmidi]
snd 26056 7 [snd-seq-midi snd-opl3-synth snd-seq-instr snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-es1938 snd-opl3-lib snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 3908 8 [snd]
tdfx 34296 1
unix 15204 39 (autoclean)

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Thanks for your help

freefall · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 89

xmms may be occupying the sound device. Do a ps and kill xmms if it's still there after you have closed it. That works for me.

Rotund · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 6

I know in if you use EsounD as your output, it will start up the EsounD daemon (esd). You will need to tell esd to release your soundcard. To do this use the command 'esdctl standby' or 'esdctl off' (Note: you'll have to run 'esdctl on' to get ESD working again if you use 'esdctl off')

Goudvis · Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2002 9:38 am Post subject: Check your output plugins

Hey did you check the output plugin in preferences?? Just try another one, or if you don't see any, emerge some like arts, oss and esd (emerge -s xmms)

Good luck!