Re: Sound just broken in Sid
On 28 Sep 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
>> Following a recent upgrade in Sid my sound is no longer working -- on 2
>> different machines.
>>
>> Saytime says:
>>
>> sox formats: can't open output file `/dev/audio': Invalid argument
>> child process returned a non-zero status 2
>>
>
> I get:
>
> hugo@debian:/boot$ saytime
> sox soxio: Can't open output file `/dev/audio': unknown file type `ossdsp'
> child process returned a non-zero status 2
>
> but I haven't done an upgrade since quite a while and everything else
> (audacious, aplay, mpg321, etc.) seems to be working.
>
> Is saytime the only thing that is dead or are the others as well?
>
> Hugo
>
Actually, sound *is* working - only saytime is not. I thought sound had
failed because I tried to listen to the BBC this morning and there was
nothing, but I tried again now and it was working, so it must have been
something at their end. Panic over!
Anthony
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