javaikky
August 30th, 2008, 12:11 AM
I'm fairly new to the Linux side of the world, but I've been heavily involved with IT, and Windows for many years, and I consider myself above average in just about everything but Linux lol.
I don't usually like to have to ask for help, but I'm completly stumpped and don't know what to do.
I am using 8.04 and I have an XI-FI extreme audio card, and rather than go with Alsa, using OSS seemed to be the easier path.
My first 8.04 install went very well, I had the sound work in just about everything but .WMV. I had all my applications from work running ( Remedy, Lotus Notes 8.01, Juniper network connect ect) with no problems.
However, during my quest to get WMV files to play correctly, I inadvertently screwed something up and broke my sound completely.
With nothing left to do, I backed up, and reinstalled the OS.
I proceeded just as before, installed OSS, went through all the configs described in this article "http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4874981&postcount=2".
I did nothing different from the first time, but for some reason I can get no sounds while playing any video. Not Flash, or any other format.
I've scoured these forums, but I have been unable to find any solution, at least not one I am able to understand.
I've tried multiple players, VLC, MPlayer, Gnome Mplayer, Totem, Kaffiene, Movie Player, etc but nothing is working.
I go to system/preferences/sound/ and I set everything to auto detect, and everything will test out ok .
However I do notice, that OSS is not in the list. I find this very odd, as if I select any of the options aside from auto detect, the test will fail .
Please if at all possible help me.
I have completely made the switch to Linux, and I haven't looked back till now.
Any info/advice is greatly appreciated.
Either way, anyone who reads this post have a great holiday, and try not to eat to much on Monday.
Kind Regards,
Mike
PS: I did replace the libaudio file with the OSS version.
I don't usually like to have to ask for help, but I'm completly stumpped and don't know what to do.
I am using 8.04 and I have an XI-FI extreme audio card, and rather than go with Alsa, using OSS seemed to be the easier path.
My first 8.04 install went very well, I had the sound work in just about everything but .WMV. I had all my applications from work running ( Remedy, Lotus Notes 8.01, Juniper network connect ect) with no problems.
However, during my quest to get WMV files to play correctly, I inadvertently screwed something up and broke my sound completely.
With nothing left to do, I backed up, and reinstalled the OS.
I proceeded just as before, installed OSS, went through all the configs described in this article "http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4874981&postcount=2".
I did nothing different from the first time, but for some reason I can get no sounds while playing any video. Not Flash, or any other format.
I've scoured these forums, but I have been unable to find any solution, at least not one I am able to understand.
I've tried multiple players, VLC, MPlayer, Gnome Mplayer, Totem, Kaffiene, Movie Player, etc but nothing is working.
I go to system/preferences/sound/ and I set everything to auto detect, and everything will test out ok .
However I do notice, that OSS is not in the list. I find this very odd, as if I select any of the options aside from auto detect, the test will fail .
Please if at all possible help me.
I have completely made the switch to Linux, and I haven't looked back till now.
Any info/advice is greatly appreciated.
Either way, anyone who reads this post have a great holiday, and try not to eat to much on Monday.
Kind Regards,
Mike
PS: I did replace the libaudio file with the OSS version.