Re: Strange Sound problem.....
Hi:-)
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> writes:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 17:22:14 +0100, Josef Oswald <oswald@chello.at> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi:-)
>>
>> this is the situation:
>>
>> Soundblaster Live5.1 the driver is compiled into the Kernel, (version
>> 2.5.0)
>>
>> XMM and the gnome-Cd-player do work fine
>>
>> yet some other program's don't
>>
>> cat /usr/share/sounds/login.wav > /dev/audio only produces some
>> strange noise.... other sound-program's don't work also
>
> Well, I believe that's correct behavior. Try "play <file>". I don't
> think /dev/audio "understands" wav files directly.
"play <file.wav>" did /does work here also
cat file.au /dev/audio worked too
The funny part is that "cat /usr/share/sounds/login.wav > /dev/audio"
was in a Debian-User-guide I found on the net :-/
so the problem most likely lies with the program's I want to use:
audacity ( seems to be badly broken can't even save a test-file)
and with Slab ( here I don't have microMixer used to choose the input
source like CD-Rom, Line, and the like.....
so I need to figure out what is happening there :-/
>
> A common source of sound problems is having one of these sound daemons
> lock up the sound device. This will give the peculiar behavior where
> some programs can play audio files, and others can't. The first
> succeed, because they play the files through the audio daemon, rather
> than directly through the device.
>
> Esd has an option that can be specified to release the sound device(s)
> after so many seconds (esd -as <SECS>). I imagine the KDE sound server
> has a similar option...?
>
I use Gnome at the Moment
thanks for responding :-)
> --
> Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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