It's flippin out!!

[Harvey]

Hey! I started up xmms as always and when I started to play a mp3 it just FLEW through the track at like quadspeed, however no sound was playing from teh speakers. I could just see the timer on xmms FLYING through the thing. What the heck?? Is it... broken....?

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Help me I'm Harvey!

[sssadams]

that happened to me when i tried to upgrade to the latest version using a Slak package without removing the old one I compiled my self.A quick cleanup and reinstall had it working fine.

[Harvey]

Okay, I'm using Mandrake 7.2, and the xmms that I am using came preinstalled so I don't have the package or anything.

To uninstall and clean it up is just removing the binary enough?

Then I'll go get a new rpm or something and see what happens.

This is really weird. I have been using it fine for over a month and all of a sudden. It farts. The only significant change I have made in the past week that I can remember is installing 'browsex' a web browser. Heh.

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Help me I'm Harvey!

[Harvey]

hey guys, not having any luck with reinstalling xmms. I don't think I got everything uninstalled properly.. can someone give me a hand? when i redo the rpm install it gives me conflict stuff. Any help would be appreciated http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[Harvey]

xmms is givin me the business....

[root@DHCP-43-176 RPMS]# rpm -i /home/harvey/xmms-1.2.4-1.i386.rpm
file /usr/bin/wmxmms from install of xmms-1.2.4-1 conflicts with file from package xmms-1.2.3-4mdk
file /usr/bin/xmms from install of xmms-1.2.4-1 conflicts with file from package xmms-1.2.3-4mdk
file /usr/lib/libxmms.so.1.0.0 from install of xmms-1.2.4-1 conflicts with file from package xmms-1.2.3-4mdk
file /usr/lib/xmms/Effect/libecho.la from install of xmms-1.2.4-1 conflicts with file from package xmms-1.2.3-4md

[Harvey]

ARGH. Tried to use FreeAmp instead... and I needed to get id3lib, but when I tried to
sh ./configure it....

checking for c++... no
checking for g++... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables.
[root@DHCP-43-176 id3lib-3.7.13]#

[Luthor]

v1.2.3 is default for MD 7.2 - why not just reinstall the XMMS from off the CD instead of hassling with getting 1.2.4 to be happy?




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Luthor St. James
(aka [AcK]BillTheCat)

[A_Lawn_GNOME]

I had the same problem when I installed a midi plugin. It affected everything else.

Try installing the bare minimum.

[bobarian]

Originally posted by Harvey:
ARGH. Tried to use FreeAmp instead... and I needed to get id3lib, but when I tried to
sh ./configure it....

checking for c++... no
checking for g++... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables.
[root@DHCP-43-176 id3lib-3.7.13]#

You might have bigger problems on your hand than xmms if your C++ compiler doesn't work or doesn't exist. What packages did you exclude when you installed Mandrake?

[Harvey]

yeah that's weird isn't it. I had that problem when trying to compile nmap on this thing too. I THOUGHT I included all the packages when I installed Mandrake7.2

How can I see what packages I installed anyway? strange isn't it. I'll try reinstalling xmms from the rpms now http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

Have been using mpg123 today. heh. nifty.

[carwyn]

To see what rpm packages are on your system you could use

rpm -qa

and use grep to check for a specific package.

I had this problem (xmms flying through an mp3 without playing it) when I accidentally changed my output plugin to the diskwriter plugin!

Took me a while to see that one!

Doh!