Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:52:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix@privat.dk> Cc: FreeBSD-multimedia <freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sound hell Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105301650240.16312-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010530224520.56e8af2c.mekanix@privat.dk>
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Well, arts retains the sound device for about a minute after it plays something, so that's what's wrong with xmms... but they have an output plugin for xmms that lets it play through artsd Ken On Wed, 30 May 2001, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > I'm starting to get at headache with all these conflicting non-working > sound-daemons/sound systems. > > Gnome: > > Systemsound not working. Killing off ESD.... still not working. > > Realplayer refuses to play, whether I choose ESD as output or not. States > that something most be occupying /dev/dsp. Killing off ESD doesn't change > anyting. > > Now for the strange part. Xmms, xine, everybuddy etc. all set to use ESD > as output works just fine, though using esd with xine seems to delay sound > "a bit". > > KDE2: > > Arts seems quite nice and looks like it's using OSS. But selecting OSS as > I/O (as opposed to Autodetect) I get no sound a startup. Just strange, > nothing serious. The rest of the system-sounds seems to work. As does > Realplayer and the rest. > > I've got one minor issue though. Xmms sometimes refuses to play (selecting > OSS as output), stating that the device is blocked/occupied. Waiting a few > minutes and it plays nicely again. No other sound seems to have been "en > route", either from the system or any apps. Weird. > > arts vs. esd. > > Is there any ways to get these two to coexist? Ie. getting arts to "spoof" > af esd? I'm using a mix of kde- and gnomeapps and it's annoying not to be > able to get sound from both parts. > > Bjarne > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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