[arch-general] [ARCH-GENERAL] alsaplayer gtk2 interfacelost?

[Jeffrey Parke]

Javier Vasquez wrote:
> My alsaplayer configuration file includes:
>
> % cat ~/.alsaplayer/config
> #
> # alsaplayer config file
> #
> # Only edit this file if the application is not active.
> # Any modifications might (will!) be lost otherwise.
> #
> http.buffer_size=1048576
> main.default_interface=gtk2
> main.default_output=alsa
> main.fallback_interface=text
> main.period_count=8
> main.period_size=4096
> main.play_on_start=false
>
> But when I run alsaplayer with verbosity I get:
>
> % alsaplayer --verbose
> AlsaPlayer 0.99.80
> (C) 1999-2004 Andy Lo A Foe <andy at alsaplayer.org> and others.
> Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12
> Loading reader plugin: HTTP reader v1.3
> Loading reader plugin: File reader v1.1
> Loading Input plugin: MikMod player v1.0
> Loading Input plugin: WAV player v1.01
> Loading Input plugin: Ogg Vorbis player v1.2
> Loading Input plugin: CDDA player v1.2
> Loading Input plugin: flac player v1.1.3/1.1.4/1.2
> Loading Input plugin: libsndfile plugin v0.1
> Loading Input plugin: MAD MPEG audio plugin v1.01
> Loading Input plugin: Audio File Library player v0.2.1
> Interface plugin: TEXT interface v1.1
> Nothing to play.
>
> I'm not sure why the text interface was started.  I tried changing the
> fallback interface to gtk2, and things fail like:
>
> % alsaplayer --verbose
> AlsaPlayer 0.99.80
> (C) 1999-2004 Andy Lo A Foe <andy at alsaplayer.org> and others.
> Output plugin: ALSA output v1.9.0beta12
> Loading reader plugin: HTTP reader v1.3
> Loading reader plugin: File reader v1.1
> Loading Input plugin: MikMod player v1.0
> Loading Input plugin: WAV player v1.01
> Loading Input plugin: Ogg Vorbis player v1.2
> Loading Input plugin: CDDA player v1.2
> Loading Input plugin: flac player v1.1.3/1.1.4/1.2
> Loading Input plugin: libsndfile plugin v0.1
> Loading Input plugin: MAD MPEG audio plugin v1.01
> Loading Input plugin: Audio File Library player v0.2.1
> Failed to load text interface. This is bad (gtk2,gtk2,/usr/lib/alsaplayer)
>
> Any idea why gtk2 alsaplayer interface doesn't seem to work?  The
> package is i686:
>
> % pacman -Qs alsaplayer
> local/alsaplayer 0.99.80-1
> ...
>
> Thanks,
>
>   
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