On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:00 am, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 07:13, lorne wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 September 2003 10:26 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > >         libwx_gtk-2.3.so.1   is needed by hackaudacity-1.1.0-4mdk
> >
> > I used urpmi, which also failed, but... urpmf then showed me that the
> > only versions of libwx_gtk Mandrake has are 2.4.*, which is why it
> > failed.
> >
> > OOH!. Just learned something new. Thank you!
> >
> > > dunno if hackaudacity is different, but I just loaded audacity and had
> > > the same problem. So I closed it and tried again with soundwrapper
> > > audacity, which worked.
> >
> > Okay, help an old fart out.... soundwrapper audacity? Is this a different
> > program or a different way of launching it?
>
> APPLICATION LEVEL      : play, esdplay, sox, &c.
> SOUND DAEMON LEVEL (*d): esd, artsd, nsd -- optional but very nice.
> DRIVER LEVEL  (modules): OSS or ALSA, /dev/sound/ entries
> HARDWARE LEVEL  (cards): whatever-sound-chip-you've-got
>
> basically, some sound-related applications try to access the driver
> level directly, which the daemon typically blocks them from doing.
> soundwrapper is a script that intercepts that access and reformats it to
> go through the daemon. You can test it from a terminal by typing
> soundwrapper audacity, and if it works you can change your menu shortcut
> with menudrake (run as root).
>
Yep! You are genius! Thanks so much. Now let me ask why I need to do this... 
Is this because of a bug or the way the application was designed, or is it 
like a gnome product that I'm trying to use in KDE? 

Thanks to EVERYONE for all the help. I do believe I finally have an editor to 
cut the screech out of my songs. :) I"m not a happy camper and I didn't even 
have to stoop to using mickeysoft stuff! WOO HOO!!!

> > > If a program is really obstinate and you use artsd, try artsdsp -m
> > > program (this works real well for games).
>
> This is when the program expects certain hardware features -- the -m
> tells artsd to emulate those features.
>
> > I'm sure I don't just type artsd, or artsdsp -m at the bash prompt right?
> > I tried that but I'm sure I need to remove something or ?
>
> If you use KDE, you're probably using artsd. Use your favorite process
> viewer, such as pstree to figure out what's running. I'm also a big fan
> of treeps, but I think it needs to be compiled from source.


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