I’m running SuSE 11.0 on a 64-bit dual core AMD processor. Amarok has always been very flakey on this architecture and now with this upgrade to SuSE 11.0 its unplayable. When I select either a music file or a URL for internet radio it never comes back. It becomes a dead process and I have to terminate it. I’m wondering if anyone else has seen this behaviour. While running it under 10.3 it would run but it would eventually crash (while idle as a docked process) and I would see the email dump to be sent. I always sent it.
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> I’m running SuSE 11.0 on a 64-bit dual core AMD processor. Amarok has
> always been very flakey on this architecture and now with this upgrade
> to SuSE 11.0 its unplayable. When I select either a music file or a URL
> for internet radio it never comes back. It becomes a dead process and I
> have to terminate it. I’m wondering if anyone else has seen this
> behaviour. While running it under 10.3 it would run but it would
> eventually crash (while idle as a docked process) and I would see the
> email dump to be sent. I always sent it.
>
> Cheers!!
>
>
I’m have a problem with Amarok also but I run openSUSE 11.0, KDE 3.5.9 and
latest packman versions of sound systems. I get the player but NO sound. If
I use Mplayer, Kaffine etc I get sound fine, also the KDE sounds all appear
to work. You can see the player is playing the radio stream or CD but no
sound.
rpm -qa “amarok”
returns?
b) Settings->Configure Amarok->Engine. The use of “xine Engine” with Output plugin set to “alsa” probably will give you the best results.
But use libxine from Packman:
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> Thanks for the idea but no cigar. I installed from the link that you
> gave me and the problem remains.
>
> Cheers!!
>
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did you run it from a konsole window? what errors if any are given?
fyi - I run under 64bit 10.3 and 11.0 no problem
Suse 11.0 x64, Kde 3.5.9, Gnome 2.20, Opera 9.x weekly
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> a) What > rpm -qa “amarok” returns?
amarok-1.4.9.1-103.pm.1
> b) Settings->Configure Amarok->Engine. The use of “xine Engine” with
> Output plugin set to “alsa” probably will give you the best results.
> But use libxine from Packman:
1.1.13-0.pm.3-i686 from packman_-_mirror
Have xine and alsa selected for the Engine. speakers are set as default
ALSA
Not sure which speaker setting to use. Sound under YaST hardware says
SBLive!
>> $ rpm -q libxine1
>> libxine1-1.1.13-0.pm.3
libxine1-1.1.13-0.pm.3
Well I took the advice of started amarok in a console. No errors or anything meaningful to me BUT, (a big but) I was finally able to run the setup menu selection and successfully choose the xine engine. Before I would select it and then amarok would go visit La-La Land forever and I would have to “kill -9” it. Right now this does seem to be working. Thanks to everyone with their advice and helpful ideas.