XMMS - OSS usable by root only. Alsa plugin also dont work

[MRussell]

Currently on my box only the root user can use XMMS with the OSS output plugin selected. All other users can not. The following is the behavior that I get for regular users as well as the root user when the alsa output plugin is selected.

Steps:
1. Check the output plugin. I've tried both OSS & ALSA with the same result.
2. Load a file or stream into the play list.
3. Click play.
At this point nothing happens. No sound nothing. Also XMMS doesn't thinks its playing either because the time count doesn't increment.
4. Click on any button (stop, play, another file in the playlist) etc, and XMMS locks up completely and has to be killed.

A few things. I have the alsa driver installed and working as I can play sound with noatun, and zinf. My user is part of the audio group, so I doubt its related to that. Gentoo was just installed on this box early this week as a replacement for RedHat 9. Also, I don't know how much it matters but I am running inside kde.

My system was compiled with the following CFLAGS: -mcpu=i686 -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -frerun-loop-opt -frerun-cse-after-loop"

I don't really think it's the CFLAGS since root can use XMMS, though only with the OSS output plugin selected.

Anyone have any ideas to try as I'm fresh out and haven't found anything in the forums that has helped.

Mark Russell

[gamera2_00]

This might sound like a silly question, but is the user that you want to use audio in the "audio" group?

This is what alot of distros use to prevent remote users/misbehaving users/etc. from abusing the soundcard.

To add people to groups, see;

man usermod

To get a list of groups (from a terminal);

groups

Hope this helps you.
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[MRussell]

My primary login that I want to be able to use sound does indeed belong to the "audio" group. That's why I'm confused that it's not working.

Mark Russell

[MRussell]

bump for answer

[gamera2_00]

(Sorry about the REALLY long delay)

It sounds like an alsa configuration problem. What kind of card do you have? Some cards won't work properly without manual configuration.

Do you have multiple cards?

What's the ouput from XMMS look like? (started from a terminal window)

Are the sound drivers compiled as modules and are they loaded at boot?

Is alsa starting in the boot runlevel and not default?
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[Roptaty]

[gamera2_00]

Oohhhhh yeaah, that's right, I forgot all about that.
Xmms doesn't have an ARTS sound output plugin by default.

If you want arts support in XMMS, try;

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge xmms-arts

Then you can use xmms under arts.

Note: Visualization plugins will lag quite a bit, but you'll be able to use xmms and have kde sounds. If you want to use visualization plugins, don't allow arts to start up with kde and use the OSS output plugin. Method below doesn't lag as much.
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[Roptaty]

[Assgier]

yo i'm having the same problem, but instead of using ARTS-hacks to play normally, i really would like to use it with ALSA...

also, nice to know is, that when you wait a while, XMMS wil start playing just fine... it's just that annoying delay every time you start XMMS

Anyone who had this problem and maybe solved it?

I'm using a SiS7012 soundcard (AC'97 i believe...), it's a laptop
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[sklettke]

I had this same problem. In order to get xmms to play through alsa, arts needs to be closed. To do this manually run