Alsa and XMMS

**Landus Mikain** · 10-20-2004

I emerged both, but the alsa option isn't under I/O Plugins in XMMS? Any clue how to get it to show?

**scientica** · 10-20-2004

do you have "alsa" in your "USE" flag? thus, in /etc/make.conf
once you've added alsa to the USE flag, re-emerge xmms and it's should build the ALSA module

Also check for typos, I had written ntpl instead of nptl, which meant I had to re-emerge gcc :/ I recpomend emergin "ufed" - it's a great USE flag editor!

**Landus Mikain** · 10-20-2004

So I just make a new line that says USE='alsa'?

**Landus Mikain** · 10-20-2004

Ok, I got alsa to show up, but now I have a different problem. My soundcard isn't set up. I know there's a command that lets you see what hardware is what. That's how I figured what module I needed when I was setting up my nic. I seemed to have forgotten that command.

**scientica** · 10-21-2004

ok, you're facing the same thing as me, before I realised what I had to do to get my sound working

You will need to run this command (as root):

Code:

/etc/init.d/alsasound start

and to make it start every boot type:

Code:

rc-update -a alsasound default

Also, you don't have a USE="..." in your /etc/make.conf? you should have configured that during the install, if you already got a USE="..." line just add ' alsa' to it.

**Landus Mikain** · 10-21-2004

What I did was emerge unmerge xmms then USE="alsa" emerge xmms and now I use the eSound I/O thingy and it works fine.

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