Guys,
I have 11.3 running - 64bit - lxde
i have alsa installed, pulseaudio installed.
As root - via a terminal ( using mpg123) i can play an mp3 song.
mpg123 -vv testsong.mp3
Trying output module alsa.
Using default module dir: /usr/lib64/mpg123
Module dir: /usr/lib64/mpg123
Module path: ./output_alsa.so
Output module 'alsa' chosen.
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
version 1.13.2; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
free software (LGPL/GPL) without any warranty but with best wishes
Decoder: x86-64 (SSE)
Audio driver: alsa
Audio device: <none>
Audio capabilities:
playlist in normal order:
testsong.mp3
Playing MPEG stream 1 of 1: testsong.mp3 ...
Above , we can see that ‘alsa’ was chosen.
As a normal user - via a terminal ( using mpg123), I CANT play this file, output shown below…
mpg123 -vv testsong.mp3
Trying output module alsa.
Using default module dir: /usr/lib64/mpg123
Module dir: /usr/lib64/mpg123
Module path: ./output_alsa.so
Trying output module oss.
Using default module dir: /usr/lib64/mpg123
Module dir: /usr/lib64/mpg123
Module path: ./output_oss.so
Trying output module esd.
Using default module dir: /usr/lib64/mpg123
Module dir: /usr/lib64/mpg123
Module path: ./output_esd.so
[module.c:102] error: Failed to open module esd: file not found
Note: This could be because of braindead path in the .la file...
Trying output module jack.
Using default module dir: /usr/lib64/mpg123
Module dir: /usr/lib64/mpg123
Module path: ./output_jack.so
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
exec of JACK server (command = "/usr/bin/jackd") failed: No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
[jack.c:252] error: Failed to open jack client: 0x11
[jack.c:58] warning: FIXME: One needs to wait or write some silence here to prevent the last bits of audio to vanish out of the ringbuffer.
Trying output module portaudio.
Using default module dir: /usr/lib64/mpg123
Module dir: /usr/lib64/mpg123
Module path: ./output_portaudio.so
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started
Output module 'portaudio' chosen.
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
version 1.13.2; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
free software (LGPL/GPL) without any warranty but with best wishes
Decoder: x86-64 (SSE)
Audio driver: portaudio
Audio device: <none>
Audio capabilities:
playlist in normal order:
testsong.mp3
Playing MPEG stream 1 of 1: testsong.mp3 ...
Note: ID3v2.3 rev 0 tag of 1056 bytes
Note: ID3v2.3 rev 0 tag of 2038 bytes
Note: Junk at the beginning (0x00000000)
[portaudio.c:91] error: Failed to open PortAudio default stream: Device unavailable
[audio.c:627] error: failed to open audio device
[mpg123.c:515] error: failed to reset audio device: Bad file descriptor
As you can see, mpg123 fails to choose ‘alsa’ ?
Is this some permission problem? it works as root but not as a normal user?
Additional Info - In firefox -> youtube -> video -> i get no sound either. i thought it was just a 64bit flash problem - so i did not bother then. Now i am stuck.