I'm now finished with Amarok

[Peter C. Ndikuwera]

On 9 April 2011 16:32, Donn Washburn <n5xwb at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> I had similar problems with Amarok but I did get it working.  These are
> some of the headache I had with openSuSE and Amarok (and several others
> in KDE).
> 1.Check permissions on all device /dev audio related items.  Here it was
> dsp and mixer  The settings i set them to is 666 from 660.
> 2. The sound module was not spotted correctly aby Yast2 (Yet Another
> Setup Tool).  yast2>Hardware>Sound put dummy first above
> "snd-hda-intel".  I deferred dummy and that helped.
> 3. And to get Amarok and other programs to play mp3 I had to download
> from SuSE a bunch of related mp3 stuff.
> 4. I also had to download, compile xine, install files and dump
> gstreamer in Amarok.  Good news phonon was not the problem
>
> Amarok is now working correctly.   Even on a git version.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> I don't think your situation is typical. I've used SuSE/OpenSUSE for years
and all I've ever had to do was add a couple of repositories, install the
required development libraries and Amarok just worked. None of your points
(even #3) are actual Amarok problems. They seem to be soundcard and/or
configuration issues.

Peter
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