You'll need to start a sound server. When using KDE arts (which is a sound server) is started. arts puts all thos programs that want to use sound together. So one program doesn't have to wait for the other to finish.
You can start arts without using kde. just do "artsd &". Then use the play command "artsplay" for amsn. This will make amsn using arts instead of play, which i think is used by OSS.
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Hi, I´m not sure how many of you use amsn, but when you go to tools>options>preferences...>sounds there it says ¨play¨. I think I´m missing that package because I don´t hear any sound when my pals go online, or anything else, and I think that you´re supposed to hear sound by default in amsn. How do I get that package?
Thank you,fg
ZiM
I think the problem's more basic than that - if play cannot be found, SoX probably hasn't been emerged. I just checked in the amsn ebuild and it doesn't depend on sox.
imho, it's more likely that's missing than a sound daemon.
Try 'emerge sox' and see if that sorts the problem. I don't use amsn anymore (too nasty! isn't there a better im with msn integration for *nix?) but maybe someone should tell the ebuild maintainer about the missing dependancy.
hope that helps
Bryn
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