On 02/12/2012 05:46 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday 12 February 2012 18:03:03 Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> On 02/12/2012 05:07 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: >>> Hey all. >>> >>> This morning I found that my audio playback is randomly sprinkled with >>> sound skips and dropouts. I went to /var/log/yum.log and found this: >>> >>> Feb 09 20:18:22 Updated: lame-3.99.4-2.el6.rf.i686 >>> >>> I'm not saying that caused the problem but it's all I could find that >>> changed. >> >> lame-3.99.4-2.el6.rf.i686 is RepoForge package, and if he is the >> culprit, you have to take it on their mailing list. > > Lame should not be responsible for the missing /dev/dsp. It is likely that > something else got updated as well (what else is in the yum.log?), or that > something crashed (pulseaudio, alsa, the kernel... :-) ). > > The simplest way is to try to logout and login, and see if that helps. If not, > reboot. If not, reboot to an older kernel. If not, read logs for pulseaudio > etc. > > Btw, I am writing off the top of my head here, but I think that mplayer should > not even try to use /dev/dsp. Try it with > > mplayer -ao pulse file.wav > > That should force mplayer to use pulseaudio (which should be the default by > now, IIRC). If necessary, put it in mplayer's config file. > > HTH, :-) > Marko > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > totem works great after lame downgrade. Thanks for the clue guys. mplayer -ao pulse file.wav says: MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.6 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team Playing file.mp3. Audio only file format detected. ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 48.0 kbit/3.40% (ratio: 6000->176400) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== No such audio driver 'pulse' Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. Audio: no sound Video: no video Exiting... (End of file) aplay file.mp3 says: Playing raw data 'file.mp3' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono Still just makes a nasty hiss. Still no /dev/dsp. Maybe there isn't supposed to be one for my sound hardware? lspci says: Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registerd Linux user No #267004