Frank Barknecht wrote: > >> Now I have a new error: a 5-second wav file takes an infinite >> time to aplay, with no sound output. I have to abort and kill it. > > It may not seem so, but this it's much better. My (string) guess is, > that some other program is occupying the sound devices now. Do you run > some sound daemon like Artsd under KDE or esound with Gnome? > Yes, artsd is running. Let me kill it. It seems that there's nothing else (ps aux | grep snd is empty)
> And you can find out if something and who is using > your soundcard with fuser: > > $ fuser /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p > /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: 10084 10084m 10086 10086m 10087 10087m 10088 10088m > 10090 10090m 10091 10091m 10095 10095m > Nope. fuser /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p returns an empty string. > I'm not sure about this, can someone else confirm this? But anyway, > you can at first try without that measure. > Too late: I have used the snddevices command. >> Oops. lsmod | grep oss returns _no_ lines at all. What does it mean? > > This means, that none of ALSA's OSS modules is loaded and that xmms > will probably not work yet. It might also be, that after you tried > running xmms, the modules with get loaded afterwards. You should then > see them. > Ok, let me try aplay now that I killed artsd No, nothing changed. It still runs for an infinite time, and then I have to abort it with control-Z OTOH, after aborting, there's something in fuser /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p, namely: /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: 1696 1696m This 1696 is the aplay that I aborted but didn't kill. Alberto Monteiro ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
