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k3ttc4r
March 29th, 2009, 03:41 PM
Hey guys..

i got a little problem here - i'm using Mint 6 (based on Ubuntu 8.10) with fvwm. but i don't have sound.

with

AddToFunc StartFunction
+ I Exec exec esd
in my .fvwm2rc, i got mpd to actually start playing, but i still don't hear anything.


on another note - my down-arrow key doesn't work, either..

thanks for your help!

jpkotta
March 29th, 2009, 09:48 PM
PulseAudio has replaced esd. Use

+ I Exec pulseaudio -D
It should be completely backward compatible with esd, and most Ubuntu packages offer the choice are now defaulted to PulseAudio.

You probably want to add


audio_output {
type "pulse"
name "PulseAudio"
}

to your mpdconf.

jpkotta
March 29th, 2009, 09:58 PM
on another note - my down-arrow key doesn't work, either..
Try running

xev
and press your down arrow key. You should see something like this:

KeyPress event, serial 29, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001,
root 0x88, subw 0x0, time 3613002304, (596,521), root:(601,548),
state 0x0, keycode 104 (keysym 0xff54, Down), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001,
root 0x88, subw 0x0, time 3613002361, (596,521), root:(601,548),
state 0x0, keycode 104 (keysym 0xff54, Down), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
If not, take whatever keycode is in the xev output (104 above) and run the command

xmodmap -e "keycode 104 = Down"

k3ttc4r
March 30th, 2009, 12:46 AM
PulseAudio has replaced esd. Use

+ I Exec pulseaudio -D
It should be completely backward compatible with esd, and most Ubuntu packages offer the choice are now defaulted to PulseAudio.

You probably want to add


audio_output {
type "pulse"
name "PulseAudio"
}

to your mpdconf.

i added pulse to my mpdconf a looong time ago :D

and

+ I Exec pulseaudio -d
didn't work either. solved it by putting

+ I Exec gnome-settings-daemon

probably not that elegant, but at least i can listen to some music now..


solved the problem with the down-arrow, too. the creator of the fvwm2rc mapped it to the left super key :D just removed that line, and everything's perfect again.

jpkotta
March 30th, 2009, 07:33 PM
+ I Exec pulseaudio -d
didn't work either. solved it by putting


'-d' doesn't do anything except cause a syntax error. It's case-sensitive.