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094TQ5

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Registered: 2011-10-12

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Problems with ALSA and cmus.

I've ran into a thread with my exact same problem, but the solution didn't do anything for me, even after restarting ALSA; you can find it here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93475.

The issue is that I can play sound from GTK applications and flash, but playing audio from the terminal does not work.  Both alsamixer and amixer work to adjust the sound, but when I try to play something in cmus I get the following error:

Error: opening audio device: No such file or directory

Any ideas on how to get this working properly?  It may be of interest that it worked fine when I had pulse audio installed with gnome, but after I ditched those packages cmus started to act up.

desm0tes

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Registered: 2012-02-04

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Re: Problems with ALSA and cmus.

guess, cmus is still trying to use pulse

:set output_plugin=alsa

Last edited by desm0tes (2012-02-08 23:41:24)

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094TQ5

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Registered: 2011-10-12

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Re: Problems with ALSA and cmus.

No change in behavior.

masutu

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Registered: 2010-01-30

Posts: 40

Re: Problems with ALSA and cmus.

What's your other alsa related settings in ~/.cmus/autosave?

...
set dsp.alsa.device=
set mixer.alsa.channel=
set mixer.alsa.device=
set output_plugin=
...

Do you use a .asoundrc/asound.conf file?