Help with XMMS Plugin

[Leveecius]

Hey guys, I know a second thread in just a few days. Not looking so good, but this one may be a little easier for you guys to figure out. I am trying to get my headphones to work with XMMS, so it told me to download the b2sb plugin for it. Now, I have downloaded it and am trying to install it but it keeps telling me that it can't find the AM_PATH_GLIB, AM_PATH_GTK, and AM_PATH_XMMS. All three of those are not being found for the installation. I have all the glib sources installed, and I'm still getting this. Anyone have any experience with trying to install this plugin?

[gogalthorp]

If you add Packman to your repositories in Yast it is available via Yast Software Management.

What you are missing is the environmental variables pointing to different paths. You are missing some development package that would supply these.

BTW I don't think this is what you are looking for to make the headphones work. I could be wrong though. This is more of a headphone hardware problem. Some laptops use proprietary tech to sense the head phone insertion instead of a simple mechanical switch.

IIR this question has cropped up before Try a search for laptop headphone.

[Leveecius]

If you add Packman to your repositories in Yast it is available via Yast Software Management.

What you are missing is the environmental variables pointing to different paths. You are missing some development package that would supply these.

BTW I don't think this is what you are looking for to make the headphones work. I could be wrong though. This is more of a headphone hardware problem. Some laptops use proprietary tech to sense the head phone insertion instead of a simple mechanical switch.

IIR this question has cropped up before Try a search for laptop headphone.

I already have packman in my repository, and I don't know what other enviornmental variables I need. I've downloaded a crap load of them already, and can't seem to think of what other ones I need either. I did the search and the only thing that I've found so far is they told me to go to kmixer, and alsamixer and check my headphone volume, which I don't even have a headphone option, almost as if I don't have a headphone port on my computer at all. Any developmental things you can think of off the top of your head that I might need? I've got most if not all the -devs, and the gcc's, and quite a few of the libs. so that's why I'm at a loss.

[gogalthorp]

If you have the packman repository just install it from there. What you are trying to do is install from source.

But I still think that this is not the solution to your problem. This appears to be an alsa problem not recognizing the hardware and being able to switch. I really do not think XMMS has anything to do with it. XMMS sits on top of alsa which manage the sound to the hardware. XMMS is more a conditioning layer.

[Leveecius]

ok, so is there like an Alsa configuation or something so I can try to get it to recognize my system or no?

[gogalthorp]

Maybe it might work. worth a try I guess.

as root run
alsaconf

You might also see what chipset is being used. It may lead to a driver.

lspci

post output here.

[Leveecius]

Here's what I get from the lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7910
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7912
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7915
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7916
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 7917
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 SMBus (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Azalia
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 791f
0e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
14:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device 001c (rev 01)
1a:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
1a:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
1a:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
1a:04.3 Generic system peripheral [Class 0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

I don't like seeing the unknown stuff in there. :-/

[gogalthorp]

Your sound chip is SB600 Azalia
Googleing shows lots of people having problems with this chip. I have not found a

One more thing

hwinfo --sound


Let's see what driver is installed.

Also you did not say which version of Suse so lets see what version of alsa you have

Yast-Software-Software Management
search for alsa report the version number.

[Leveecius]

I am using SuSE 10.2 right now, but I'm more than likely going to be switching to 10.3 tonight. I'm not liking 10.2 all that much and from what I hear 10.3 is TONS better. I just finished downloading the DVD for it anyways. As for the Alsa version, it is whatever one comes with 10.2, cuz I haven't updated anything yet. Alsa's site said that my card isn't even compatible on it, or at least I didn't find it on there.

When I typed hwinfo --sound, here is what I got:

23: PCI 14.2: 0403 Audio device
[Created at pci.286]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_4383
Unique ID: 5Dex.CWqchpyBRV6
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2
SysFS BusID: 0000:00:14.2
Hardware Class: sound
Model: "Toshiba America Info Audio device"
Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc"
Device: pci 0x4383
SubVendor: pci 0x1179 "Toshiba America Info Systems"
SubDevice: pci 0xff08
Memory Range: 0xf8700000-0xf8703fff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 225 (1058 events)
Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d00004383sv00001179sd0000FF08bc04sc0 3i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel"
Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown