Hi:-) Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> writes:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 17:22:14 +0100, Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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> -- LinuxUser aka Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] registered-linux-user # 134.818 at http://counter.li.org The box said Windows, NT or better, so I installed Linux :-)
