OR you can just use aplay if you've install alsa as your sound driver. just replace play with aplay and it should work fine.
But i still like and recommend using the sound server arts. It gets REALLY annoying when your playing xmms and can't here your emails or people logging in. > MooktaKiNG wrote: >> You'll need to start a sound server. When using KDE arts (which is >> a >> sound server) is started. arts puts all thos programs that want to >> use sound together. So one program doesn't have to wait for the >> other to finish. >> >> You can start arts without using kde. just do "artsd &". Then use >> the play command "artsplay" for amsn. This will make amsn using >> arts >> instead of play, which i think is used by OSS. >> >> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi, >> I�m not sure how many of you use amsn, but when you go >> to tools>options>preferences...>sounds there it says >> �play�. I think I�m missing that package because I >> don�t hear any sound when my pals go online, or >> anything else, and I think that you�re supposed to >> hear sound by default in amsn. >> How do I get that package? >> >> Thank you,fg > >> >> ZiM > > > I think the problem's more basic than that - if play cannot be > found, > SoX probably hasn't been emerged. I just checked in the amsn ebuild > and it doesn't depend on sox. > > imho, it's more likely that's missing than a sound daemon. > > Try 'emerge sox' and see if that sorts the problem. I don't use amsn > anymore (too nasty! isn't there a better im with msn integration for > *nix?) but maybe someone should tell the ebuild maintainer about the > missing dependancy. > > hope that helps > > Bryn > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > ------------------------------------------------- Please wait while you are redirected to my signature...... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
