Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

2005-07-11 Thread James Tanis
coming Skype calls, do not > start any other sound application because Skype blocks your > device... I am admittedly not to familiar with Linux's implementation of OSS, it could be that it is obselete and buggy. I have only used OSS in other operating systems. In my experience mixing and

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

2005-07-11 Thread James Tanis
t; >> > > If something is trying to open /dev/dsp, then it is using the (obsolete) > OSS API. You need to enable OSS emulation in the kernel drivers. > In the Linux kernel it may be deprecated but OSS is not obsolete. Other operating systems besides Linux need sound after all :). > Note that, AFAIK, there is no mixing possible with the OSS API. Your It does support mixing. -- James Tanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pycoder.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound problem

2005-07-11 Thread James Tanis
rrect the permissions of the file it was linked to were not. For me at least, adding yourself to audio wouldn't work as the files (well, /dev/dsp at least) looked to be owned by root:root. I just had this problem and doing a chmod o+rw /dev/sound/dsp solved it (I actually did /dev/sound/* just in case). -- James Tanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pycoder.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list