From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 2 17:26:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25F7D16A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:26:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from qsmtp2.america.net (qsmtp2.america.net [69.60.160.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 634F743D68 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:26:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trey@fastmail.fm) Received: from [65.82.45.189] (helo=fastmail.fm) by qsmtp2.america.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1AcaYk-00041j-00; Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:26:34 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF61B97.5030600@fastmail.fm> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:32:07 -0500 From: Trey Sizemore User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: T Kellers References: <3FF5CB40.5020603@fastmail.fm> <200401021542.00741.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> <3FF60391.1090803@fastmail.fm> <200401021923.12913.kellers@njit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200401021923.12913.kellers@njit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Confused about sound servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 01:26:48 -0000 T Kellers wrote: >On Friday 02 January 2004 06:49 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > >>Eric F Crist wrote: >> >> >>>On Friday 02 January 2004 02:06 pm, T Kellers wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Don't use both device pcm and the .ko modules. The sound won't work at >>>>all or, if it does, not properly. You may not even have any keyboard >>>>beeps (^G's) if both are loaded. >>>> >>>> >>>I find I only add the device pcm line to my kernel and everything works >>>fine. Gnome, KDE, console beeps. Everything works and I don't usually >>>worry about the sound servers. When you install one of the window >>>managers, as long as you install the multimedia package, the correct >>>sound server gets installed too. This has been working for me for about >>>5 years now. >>> >>>HTH >>> >>> >>Update here...I have removed the entries in /boot/loader.conf and now >>only have the kernel compiled with my 'device PCM' entry. >> >>'dmesg | grep pcm' shows my soundcard entry and cat /dev/sndstat shows >>it as well. >> >>I have rebooted after taking the entries out of loader.conf. >> >>When I try something like >> >>% play KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav >> >>I get: >> >>play: /dev/dsp: Operation not supported by device >> >>What might be causing this that I could look into? >> >> >> > >%play /usr/local/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav >play: /dev/dsp: Operation not supported by device > > >I get that same message after I've shut down the arts server > >However >artsplay /usr/local/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav > >works fine as long as artsd is running > >%ps -ax | grep arts >14333 p0 S 0:01.69 artsd >14343 p0 R+ 0:00.00 grep arts > > >If you have KDE installed, try: > >%artsd & >%artsplay /usr/local/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav > >You should hear Mr Ahem clear his throat right from the command line. > >Tim > > > > Tried that and I get the following: Can't connect to sound server :-(