Re: Problem with latest Ogle on my Mandrake 9.2

Wed Dec 17 2003, James Head wrote:
> Hi there,
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> I had a few problems when I tried Ogle with the new version of Mandrake 9.2 
> however.  I did a clean install on an ext3 partition of Mandrake and first 
> tried the RPM files, then compiling Ogle from the source code.
> 
> When I try to play a DVD using Ogle the program gui launches okay, then I 
> 'open disc' however just as the DVD starts to play Ogle exits gracefully 
> with the following displayed in the terminal window.
> 
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> ####!!#!!##!ERROR[ogle_audio]: Opening alsa pcm device 'default': No such file 
> or directory
> FATAL[ogle_audio]: failed opening the alsa audio driver at default
> ctrl: ipc_rmid: Invalid argument
> [root@localhost root]#
> 
It can't open the sound device specified, ALSA used to call it 'default'
but they seem to have change it to 'pcm' instead.  The next question however is
if you are using ASLA or OSS sound drivers.

Do the following in a terminal 'man oglerc' this should tell you where the
oglerc file is located. (should be $(prefix)/share/ogle/oglerc so if you
installed from source prefix is normally /usr/local, if you installed the
rpms it should be /usr).

  <audio>
    <device>
      <driver>alsa</driver>
      <path>/dev/audio</path>
      <alsa>
        <name>default</name>
      </alsa>
    </device>

This part is what's intersting, change default to pcm to see if that works.
If not then change alsa to oss.

> As far as I am aware all the correct libraries are present, however I am not 
> an expert in Linux.  Ironically, my main reason for installing Linux was to 
> use it to view DVDs without splashing out on Windows software, and now on 
> Mandrake 9.2 Xine seems to work okay and not crash!
> 
> Still, I would like to be able to use Ogle again, but no worries if I can't.
> 
You might be interested in trying out Goggles if you get Ogle working,
Goggles is a nicer frontend to Ogle with even more features.

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Håkan Hjort