On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:44:10 -0400 "William W. Austin" <airedad@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Last weekend I did a clean install of Fedora 19 on my main > workstation replacing fc17 which had been there. (As I usually do, I > pulled the drive containing /, /tmp, /var, and swap and replaced it > there. That drive is in another machine and I can compare the diffs.) > > Suddenly although alsaplayer works just fine, xmms cannot play > anything. When I attempt to run xmms, I get a show-box with the error > message: > > "Please check that > > Your soundcard is configured properly > You have the correct output plugin selected > No other program is blocking the soundcard" > > I've done that and the card is configured correctly, and the correct > output plugin is selected - and no other program that I can find is > blocking the card. > > I've even gone so far as to do a "yum remove pulseaudio" (which > worked just fine to solve this same problem up through at least > fc17), but that didn't help either. So I suspect that something else > is going on here. > > lsof doesn't show anything holding any of the sound devices open. > The rpms all verify correctly > > root gets the same result as a non-privileged user. > > So any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > - Bill What on earth are you using antiquated software like XMMS for? Why don't you try an up-to-date fork of it like Audacious? It has a gui that mimics XMMS if you desire that. Ananda
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