Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-06 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Tim Froggatt wrote: Try to install SDL. I found more or less the same problems running applications directly against oss/alsa as you do on the SB Live!, but when I went through the SDL sound wrapper it worked. libsdll is already installed apparently. Is it possible to get all programs to

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-06 Thread Frank Murphy
> Do you have a link of a simple setup with alsa dmix ? All web pages I > found are really complicated. Not one that works. I've played with it a bit, but even when I can get it to work, xmms hangs after 3-5 songs. What I've done is put this in my .asoundrc: # use this by specifying plug:mydmi

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-05 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début de soirée du mardi 05 août 2003, vers 21:16, Frank Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Yeah, sound on Linux is too complicated. ALSA now supports audio stream > mixing, so hopefully the arts/esd stuff will fade away (except that some > people will still want network independant

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-05 Thread Frank Murphy
> I'm just messing about at the moment - trying to find ones that work. > Kaboodle and Noatun got installed automatically with KDE 3.. They play MP3s > and wavs fine, but when playing mpeg movies, the sound displays the endian > problem... Different drivers for the different file-types I guess(?)

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-05 Thread Tim Froggatt
> Try to install SDL. I found more or less the same problems running > applications directly against oss/alsa as you do on the SB Live!, but > when I went through the SDL sound wrapper it worked. libsdll is already installed apparently. Is it possible to get all programs to go through an SDL wra

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-05 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Tim Froggatt wrote: How do I select oss or esd output? Does each application have to specifically support them, because I haven't found any options? Usually it's autodetected. Arts/esd is used if possible, if not the application will try oss. But it's on an app to app basis :-( I've foun

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-05 Thread Frank Murphy
> However, when playing some sounds I just get lots random noise (a bit like > white noise, but less soothing). This happens to the sound-track on mpeg > videos when I'm watching them on Kaboodle or Noatun (the media players from > KDE 3.1). And also when I try to play MOD files (that's an old 80s

Re: Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-04 Thread Tim Froggatt
How do I select oss or esd output? Does each application have to specifically support them, because I haven't found any options? I've found an option to disable arts - in KDE's Control Center - The Sound System tab. So far, this hasn't improved sound. On Monday 04 August 2003 6:45 pm, Lee Brai

Some sound doesn't work yet

2003-08-04 Thread Tim Froggatt
I though that I'd finally got my sound-card working, but I'm not quite there. Most things seem to work. I can play mp3s, wavs, and all the system notifications, etc. However, when playing some sounds I just get lots random noise (a bit like white noise, but less soothing). This happens to the