Amarok error: "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers."

[Snowhog]

Re: Amarok error: "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers."

You'll want to go here. You're just going to have to accept that you will have to do some reading. Print out the post. Take notes and ask specific questions if needed.

Linux is not Windows. Not to be hard, cruel, or insensitive, but you are going to have to accept that there is a learning curve involved. All of us have gone through it, and are still going through it.

[baldsue]

Re: Amarok error: "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers."

So, um, how do I get the latest version of Alsa. I believe it's 19? I don't see any instructions on how to get that version.

[Snowhog]

Re: Amarok error: "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers."

I used the following when I had to get my Intel HD working in Hardy. I'm reasonably sure it will work fine in Intrepid.

[Http://kubasik.net/blog/2008/03/31/s...-ubuntu-hardy]

So if your like me, you’ve been suffering through some painful sound problems in Ubuntu Hardy, apparently its a known kernel issue, so just sit tight. However, if your like me (or 90% of nerds) then you need some sort of music to code. A little digging revealed that I did not in fact have any of the alsa kernel modules installed for my current kernel. apt-get left me high and dry (also without an nvidia driver yet, but that’s an easy fix).
The simple remedy is to just build the alsa modules yourself, a pretty painless task. The problem is, if you want to have any hope of keeping your install halfway clean, then you need to get those files tracked by dpkg so we avoid conflicts when the modules are fixed. There’s a simple solution:

sudo apt-get install module-assistant
sudo m-a update
sudo m-a prepare
sudo m-a a-i alsa

This utilizes the handy module-assistant package to automatically build alsa for you. Reboot and enjoy!

This involves nothing more than opening a console (K Menu > Applications > System > Konsole) and typing the listed commands above.

[baldsue]

Re: Amarok error: "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers."

Thanks. That's easy enough. My understanding from the things you gave me was that module-assistant didn't give the latest release and that was what was necessary. As it is, it looks like it gives v14. But if that works, I don't feel the need to get the latest.

I'm working away...

[baldsue]

Re: Amarok error: "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers."

uh-oh...error


┌────────────┤ module-assistant, interactive mode ├─────────────┐
│ Build of the package alsa-source failed! How do you wish to │
│ proceed? │
│ │
│ VIEW Examine the build log file │
│ CONTINUE Skip and continue with the next operation │
│ STOP Stop processing the build commands │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ │
│ <Ok> <Cancel> │

Not sure what to do here...any suggestions?
│

[Snowhog]

Re: Amarok error: &quot;xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers.&quot;

Hmm. Choose the STOP option.

[baldsue]

Re: Amarok error: &quot;xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers.&quot;

The version in that was v14. I've downloaded v19. But how do I undo the v14 to use v19?

[baldsue]

Re: Amarok error: &quot;xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers.&quot;

OK, I tried the module-assistant again as I don't have any sound, not even the speaker on the task panel...

Here's the error I'm getting:
┌───────────────────┤ module-assistant, log file viewer ├────────────────────┐
│ │
│ CC [M] /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/timer.o ↑
│ CC [M] /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/wrappers.o ▒
│ CC [M] /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/misc_driver.o ▒
│ CC [M] /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/memory_debug.o ▒
│ CC [M] /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/sound.o ▒
│ /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/sound.c: In function ▒
│ ‘snd_request_other’: ▒
│ /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/sound.c:100: warning: format not a ▒
│ string literal and no format arguments ▒
│ CC [M] /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/init.o ▒
│ /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/init.c: In function ▒
│ ‘snd_card_register’: ▒
│ /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/init.c:568: warning: passing argument ▮
│ 5 of ‘device_create’ makes pointer from integer without a cast ▒
│ /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/init.c:568: warning: format not a
string literal and no format arguments ▒
│ CC [M] /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/memory.o ▒
│ CC [M] /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/info.o ▒
│ /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/info.c: In function ▒
│ ‘resize_info_buffer’: ▒
│ /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/info.c:90: error: implicit ▒
│ declaration of function ‘PAGE_ALIGN’ ▒
│ make[5]: *** [/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore/info.o] Error 1 ▒
│ make[4]: *** [/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/acore] Error 2 ▒
│ make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver] Error 2 ▒
│ make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11-generic' ▒
│ make[2]: *** [compile] Error 2 ▮
│ make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver' ▒
│ make[1]: *** [build-stamp] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver' ▮
│ make: *** [kdist_image] Error 2


Is my OS so screwed now that I need to even reload it?