On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:26 +0000, cdr wrote: > i want to thank whoever explained the plug: vs hw: differences - ive > been struggling for weeks trying to get amarok to make sound, only to > give up and go back to mplayer. it turned out all i needed to do was > preface hw or dmix with 'plug'...but this only works with gstreamer. > helix is broken and XINE says it cant find any audio devices, even > though it has ALSA support compiled in, and aplay -l lists stuff just > fine (mainly, i think my 'default' doesnt work (perhaps defautling to > hw, and not plughw?), but i have no idea how to fix that) Gack, it sounds like not one of these apps supports ALSA correctly. Are you saying they all have free-form text entry fields to select the device? They should just have a dialog box where you can select hw or plughw or dmix or whatever and another to select the sound card to use. Lee
