Re: no sound after machine rebuild & updates

On 9/16/07, Christophe Thommeret <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le lundi 17 septembre 2007 04:22, Mark Knecht a écrit:
> > Hi,
> >    Long time xine user. Love the program.
> >
> >    OK, I run a number of Gentoo machines here at home. I've just gone
> > through a complete update cycle on the lot of them. Two of the
> > machines (mine and my wife's) normally run xine all the time. After
> > this recent set of updates we are getting no sound on either machine.
> > DVD playback is fine for video but no sound. All other apps I've tried
> > have sound as normal. Only xine is not working so far.
> >
> >    I'm actually not even sure if there was an actual xine update in
> > the vast batch of packages that were rebuilt but I suspect that at
> > least xine-lib was. Here are the current versions and build flags.
> >
> > dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv xine-ui xine-lib
> >
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> >
> > [ebuild   R   ] media-video/xine-ui-0.99.5  USE="X ncurses nls
> > readline -aalib -curl -debug -libcaca -lirc -vdr -xinerama" 0 kB
> >
> > [ebuild   R   ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.8  USE="X alsa dvd flac gnome
> > gtk ipv6 jack mad nls opengl oss sdl truetype v4l vorbis win32codecs
> > xv -a52 -aac -aalib (-altivec) -arts -debug -directfb -dts -dxr3 -esd
> > -fbcon -imagemagick -libcaca -mmap -mng -modplug -musepack -pulseaudio
> > -real -samba -speex -theora -vcd -vidix -wavpack -xcb -xinerama -xvmc"
>
>
> At least, for ac3 add "a52" to your USE flag.
>
> --
> Christophe Thommeret

OK, that worked fine. Thanks.

I'm a little surprised that when I chose a 2 channel stereo sound
track I didn't get sound without this flag but not a problem.
Everything is working again.

Cheers,
Mark

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