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Topic: Using xmms
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Colddiver
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posted August 24, 2001 09:35 AM
First, let me start by saying thank you all for porting so many apps to Darwin. It is really cool to learn unix on the Mac without having to repartition, reboot and pray (my previous experiences with linuxppc were not so great).Regarding XMMS, I tried the trick you mention but it does not seem to be working here... I always get the "Please chack that your output plugin is correct, no other program is blocking the soundcard and soundcard is properly configured" alert... What other program would block the soundcard? When I start esd, I do get the init tones so that seems to be fine... Thanks, Colddiver
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Colddiver
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posted August 24, 2001 11:41 AM
Things are worse now... I did many install for darwin recently and I was careless enough to delete the content of /usr/bin (yeah... I know). I reinstalled OS X and everything else but now, when I want to run XMMS, this is what I get:** CRITICAL **: setup_ctrlsocket(): Failed to assign /var/tmp/xmms_username.0 to a socket (Error: Permission denied) I have never had that problem before I reinstalled X so I must assume that before that, the tmp directory that was used was not the /var/tmp... Other apps complain about that too... How can I fix this?
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Colddiver
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posted August 27, 2001 12:33 PM
Well... It didn't work for long... I now get this each time I try to run esd (either as root or normal user) and XMMS just hang badly if I try to play anything:- accepting connections on port 16001
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 16bit failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 8bit stereo.
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 48Khz, 16bit stereo.
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit stereo.
Audio device open for 22.05Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 16bit mono.
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit mono.
Audio device open for 22.05Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit stereo.
Audio device open for 11.025Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit mono.
Audio device open for 11.025Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 8.192Khz, 8bit mono.
Audio device open for 8.192Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 8Khz, 8bit mono.
Sound device inadequate for Esound. Fatal. It did work but very briefly... Briefly enough to give me a taste of it and to make me want it to work again! Colddiver
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Boris Mann
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posted September 03, 2001 06:46 PM
Works fine for me. Could be down to which model of Mac/motherboard you're running....I've got a Yikes/PCI G4 400Mhz, and here' the response from running esd: code:
using device Built-in audio controller for output:
with sample rate 44100.000000, 2 channels and 32-bit sample
using device Built-in audio controller for input:
with sample rate 44100.000000, 2 channels and 32-bit sample
Of course, I still don't have xmms running  ( http://macosx.forked.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=000018 ), but that's due to other problems -- Boris [ September 03, 2001: Message edited by: Boris Mann ]
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hypoflux
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posted October 20, 2001 07:14 AM
here's some tips that SHOULD get XMMS and esd working properly, since I saw no one posted this in regards to this problem.Run 'esdcat /usr/libexec/config.guess' or any other big file (a big tar ball maybe  ) if you hear grating white noise really quick, esd SHOULD work right for you. If you get no out from that. run 'esd &' and watch the output - if all looks normal you should something in regards to using outputdevice etc Also, check in the preferences of xmms that the output plugin is set for esd (by default, that i've seen, it starts with some diskwriter plugin) if you're still getting long pauses, or no sound output. check the permissions on /tmp/.esd and /tmp/.esd/socket they should be owned your normal user account. If they are not owned by you, kill ESD if it's running (check by doing a 'ps aux | grep esd', then remove the directory as the root user (sudo rm -fr /tmp/.esd) then start esd again (run esd as your normal user, not the superuser, esd was meant to be run on a per user, per need basis, not as root) also, you do not need to run esd with the -port and -tcp switches if you want to run esd clients on another computer on your network. etc. ~Eric
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v0id7
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posted November 07, 2001 04:01 AM
when i start esd it makes a cool sound that makes me think its working but i still get no sound in xmms even though the esound output plugin is selected...when i start esd i type "esd &" i do this as a normal user and xmms gives me a dilog saying "please check that:
1) you have the correct sound output plugin selected2) you have no other programs blocking the sound card 3) your sound card is configured correctly" if it matters i have a new g4
please help, thanks in advance!
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<MaxiQ>
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posted October 21, 2003 05:30 AM
I had similar problems with it workin, but xmms not being able to output (error msg). what i did was killed off ALL sound daemons, which was the artsd and esd
$ killall esd; killall artsd
Then it worked like a charm....as for the quality, tis good, no probs, could have just been the network u guys were on, who knows, i have a 100mbps personal switch for my two machines......give it a go and also cheers to those for the help for me to get this to work  Maxi. =)
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