Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
> Brad Midgley wrote:
>> Gerhard
>>
>>> 6) now what? a2dpd doesn't show up in my output choices in xmms, 
>>> "headset" shows up as a choice for the mixer device, but not the general 
>>> output device.
>> I have to type
>>  a2dpd
>>   or
>>  headset
>> freehand in the device choice in xmms. It's true it doesn't find it
>> automatically and we've tried to document that.
>>
> 
> Ok, tried that, but it still doesn't work.
> 
> Set to a2dpd and ran a2dpd:
> 
>   a2dpd
> A2DPD[392.542]: make_daemon_process: a2dpd [Feb  4 2007 12:12:52] 
> starting ...
> A2DPD[392.543]: init_uinput: (errno=2:No such file or directory)Cannot 
> open /dev/input/uinput


I got around this by doing:

modprobe uinput
chmod a+rw /dev/input/uinput

> A2DPD[392.543]: a2dpd_signal_init:
> A2DPD[392.545]: a2dpd_signal_init: (errno=2:No such file or 
> directory)Getting on DBUS

This still exists.

I've run this through strace and it seems that it looks for a file 
charset alias. But I am not sure how to interprete it, the strace output 
is attached.



> If I run aplay I get:
> 
> aplay -B 1000000 -D a2dpd 
> /usr/lib/openoffice/share/gallery/sounds/wallewal.wav
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2143:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM a2dpd
> aplay: main:550: audio open error: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

Which means "file not found".

Cheers,
	Gerhard