Re: [Alsa-user] cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp Not Working

2009-12-21 Thread Geoffrey Crowther
Bill, Thanks again for your response and for giving me an explanation of what the problem is. What I am trying to do is create an alarm that gets repeated and has varying delays of silence in between the alarm that gets played (there will also be several different alarm sounds of differing

Re: [Alsa-user] cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp Not Working

2009-12-21 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Geoffrey Crowther wrote: > Sergei, Bill, > > Thankyou for your response to my query. After I sent this email I tried the > same thing with Logitech V10 USB speakers rather than the C-Media USB > headphones. The same wav file gets played successfully (same machine, same >

Re: [Alsa-user] cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp Not Working

2009-12-21 Thread Geoffrey Crowther
Sergei, Bill, Thankyou for your response to my query. After I sent this email I tried the same thing with Logitech V10 USB speakers rather than the C-Media USB headphones. The same wav file gets played successfully (same machine, same kernel) doing cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp. Your second point

Re: [Alsa-user] cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp Not Working

2009-12-21 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:50:28 -0800 > Geoffrey Crowther wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Want to use OSS emulation through /dev/dsp for playing wav files. As a >> simple test to start with I attempt the following:- >> >> cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp >> > [snip]

Re: [Alsa-user] cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp Not Working

2009-12-21 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:50:28 -0800 Geoffrey Crowther wrote: > Hello, > > Want to use OSS emulation through /dev/dsp for playing wav files. As a > simple test to start with I attempt the following:- > > cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp > [snip] WAV file is not a PCM stream, so even after you're done

Re: [Alsa-user] cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp Not Working

2009-12-21 Thread John Haxby
On 21/12/09 16:27, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Geoffrey Crowther > wrote: >> cat sound.wav> /dev/dsp > Did you try this instead: > > aoss cat sound.wav> /dev/dsp That won't have any useful effect. aoss pre-loads a shared library that overrides an open("/dev/dsp",

Re: [Alsa-user] SB X-Fi doesnt work with openSUSE 11.2 - sound stutters

2009-12-21 Thread kleinerw...@gmail.com
Arthur Marsh schrieb: > kleinerw...@gmail.com wrote, on 21/12/09 15:40: >> Dear all, >> >> sorry, if this isn't the proper way to use the mailing list, please >> excuse, I didn't join to one before... >> >> My problem is my soundcard - a Creative X-Fi gamer. I spent the whole >> weekend to get it

Re: [Alsa-user] cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp Not Working

2009-12-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Geoffrey Crowther wrote: > Hello, > > > > Want to use OSS emulation through /dev/dsp for playing wav files. As a > simple test to start with I attempt the following:- > > > > cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp Did you try this instead: aoss cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp

Re: [Alsa-user] asoundrc softvol not working

2009-12-21 Thread Iwan Ferreira
> > Hi! > > I'm trying to add a softvol control to act as a master control for all the > channels on my sound card. I have a M-Audio Revolution 7.1 soundcard. > ALSAMIXER shows PCM, center, LFE, rear and side mixers, but no master mixer > to control all the channels. I'm currently running Ubuntu 9.

Re: [Alsa-user] SB X-Fi doesnt work with openSUSE 11.2 - sound stutters

2009-12-21 Thread Arthur Marsh
kleinerw...@gmail.com wrote, on 21/12/09 15:40: > Dear all, > > sorry, if this isn't the proper way to use the mailing list, please > excuse, I didn't join to one before... > > My problem is my soundcard - a Creative X-Fi gamer. I spent the whole > weekend to get it work, but the only I figured o