Re: Fun sound problem
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030130 09:02]: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:47:12PM -0800, Eric Nelson wrote: > > Nice board, have you tried the alsa website for drivers? > > Erf. I was hoping for the simplicity of using OSS. My understanding > is that ALSA is Not Trivial to use, requiring ALSA aware programs; > from a usability, it seems like the pain to install of any third-party > kernel features, with the inconvienence similar to esound or arts > requiring ALSA aware programs. I'll use it if I have to, but I > consider it a last resort. Okay, I am going to stick my foot in it here, because I have been having a "challenging" time getting sound and the apps I use to happily coexist. Here is what I did, and what I have running. I opted for esound as after fiddling around it seems to work with the apps I am interested in: So, sawfish sounds (really not important but a bonus) happily work with esd mplayer - this was a challenge, and figured out the problem was to use the libsdl1.2debian-esd package so all sdl sound powered apps play nicely with esd. xmms - has an esd module installed in the default package, just choose it in preferences under output module (the default is OSS) dgen (secret shame) - also requires sdl, and before like mplayer was not happy with the sound packages, so now it works with esd flash plugins seem happy to work with esd as well, but I think that it just goes with whatevers working at the time, before it worked with esd or there was no sound daemon working, it used to freeze up the browser if I was listening to music which was amazingly annoying. Realplayer (cbc radio, voice of the homeland) - as an esound option These are all the sound using apps I use at the moment, and they can now all work together. I have heard a lot about alsa, and have installed the packages, but from an ignorant point of view (mine) the esd option seems to work well. the only thing I do is have a startup script and on of the things I enable is esd & As to playing cds this seems to by pass all the other sound drivers somehow and just play directly in xmms and others (hence not being able to adjust with the equalizer etc.) I looked into ARTS, but found it doesn't mix sounds, all it seems to do is shut down one stream and start playing the other stream. The advantage is that it didn't crash the computer, which is what was happening when I didn't have anything managing sound, and started playing two streams at once, but is still not a viable option. hth, rohan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fun sound problem
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:47:12PM -0800, Eric Nelson wrote: > > Nice board, have you tried the alsa website for drivers? > > Erf. I was hoping for the simplicity of using OSS. My understanding > is that ALSA is Not Trivial to use, requiring ALSA aware programs; > from a usability, it seems like the pain to install of any third-party > kernel features, with the inconvienence similar to esound or arts > requiring ALSA aware programs. I'll use it if I have to, but I > consider it a last resort. It's true that ALSA is poorly documented and Not Trivial to use. But, it does *not* require ALSA-aware programs. All standard OSS sound applications that I've found work well with the ALSA drivers. And, if you're running a standard Debian kernel-image, there is probably a pre-compiled, matching alsa-modules package already available. If you build your own kernel from source, then you will need to compile the drivers, too. Not Trivial, but hardly rocket science. Here's a good Debian ALSA HOWTO... http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=541 Good luck, -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fun sound problem
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:47:12PM -0800, Eric Nelson wrote: > Nice board, have you tried the alsa website for drivers? Erf. I was hoping for the simplicity of using OSS. My understanding is that ALSA is Not Trivial to use, requiring ALSA aware programs; from a usability, it seems like the pain to install of any third-party kernel features, with the inconvienence similar to esound or arts requiring ALSA aware programs. I'll use it if I have to, but I consider it a last resort. > I haven't booted up into it in a while now though, cause all my music > apps are running under windoze =( Have you looked into Win4Lin, VMWare or plex86? -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg27345/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Fun sound problem
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:59:32PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Last weekend, I purchased a Soyo Dragon KT333 Lite motherboard. On board > comes a C-Media CMI8738 sound card. > > I'm wondering if anybody's managed to get one of these to play more > than one sound at the same time, rather than queueing subsequent sounds? > Nice board, have you tried the alsa website for drivers? I have set up support for my multi-card system and found after ripping and tearing through getting alsa built and configured, (you'll most likely be doing this from source mind you), I had a great sounding workstation. I haven't booted up into it in a while now though, cause all my music apps are running under windoze =( -- Eric Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.megahosted.com/~en/ GPG-key: C4AB5707 Fingerprint: 9E50 D5C2 2B02 A944 1A28 5CA5 366A 0294 C4AB 5707 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
