mpg123 and xmms

[David A. Bandel]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:16:07 -0500
begin  Alan Jackson <ajackson at oplnk.net> spewed forth:

> I need some wisdom/experience. On my Caldera Wk 3.1 partition, I run
> gqmpeg, which is a front-end to mpg123, for playing mp3's. Xmms is quite
> flakey on this system.
> Well I just loaded Wk 3.1.1 on the same box. Under 3.1.1, mpg123 just
> sits there doing nothing - no errors, no sound, nothing. But Xmms runs
> like a top, no problems at all. 
> What in the world could be going on? It is, BTW, the same version of
> mpg123.

2 things come to mind (at least, this works on my system):
	chmod 666 /dev/sound/* (yours may be different)
	run aumix and turn up the volume

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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