Re: Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie)
On 09/06/2007 11:30 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: I have a laptop with a sound card that only supports a single stream. (People on #debian helped me figure this out.) This is annoying not because i want to play twelve different sypmhonies at once through high-def systems, but just so i can listen to music while getting beeps from Gaim, or whatever. If theres no way to do this, bummer i guess. But my problem is that sometimes i seem to have something blocking the sound card and i cant figure out what it is. I dont THINK im running any sound thing ,but then if i try to run xmms i get a something's blocking your sound card message, or if i play a YouTube video i just get no sound at all. When this happens, how do i find out what's blocking hte sound card, and how do i kill this so i can play what i want? Hi -- Are you running etch? I had this issue and posted my solution to the list on 21 Apr 2007, Subject: SOLVED Re: Sound mixing: Help configure dmix for flash, xmms, totem or make default. Maybe that message in the archives could help. Let us know. Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie)
On Friday, 7. September 2007 06:30, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: ... If theres no way to do this, bummer i guess. But my problem is that sometimes i seem to have something blocking the sound card and i cant figure out what it is. I dont THINK im running any sound thing ,but then if i try to run xmms i get a something's blocking your sound card message, or if i play a YouTube video i just get no sound at all. When this happens, how do i find out what's blocking hte sound card, and how do i kill this so i can play what i want? Thanks. Jen If you're using ALSA, run sudo /etc/init.d/alsa force-reload But be careful, it'll kill the applications using alsa. -- -=[JT]=- It doesn't matter whether you win or lose -- until you lose. PGP Public key http://users.utu.fi/jukatu/juha_tuuna_utu.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie)
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 07:54:23 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a laptop with a sound card that only supports a single stream. (People on #debian helped me figure this out.) This is annoying not because i want to play twelve different sypmhonies at once through high-def systems, but just so i can listen to music while getting beeps from Gaim, or whatever. If theres no way to do this, bummer i guess. But my problem is that sometimes i seem to have something blocking the sound card and i cant figure out what it is. I dont THINK im running any sound thing ,but then if i try to run xmms i get a something's blocking your sound card message, or if i play a YouTube video i just get no sound at all. When this happens, how do i find out what's blocking hte sound card, and how do i kill this so i can play what i want? Thanks. Sound on laptops can be tricky. One old laptop I had would not work with alsa, so I had to enable an oss module on boot up by adding a line to the /etc/modules file. But I digress. I'm going to assume that you're using Etch, with alsa for your soundcard, and that you're using gnome for your desktop environment (if these assumptions are not correct, then kindly let us know). So, to get sound working on gaim, and other gnome applications, open Desktop/Preferences/Sound (from the menu in the top left corner), and, having opened the Sound Preferences dialogue, check the Enable software sound mixing (ESD) box, along with the Play system sounds box, and then you will have all the bells and whistles that go with the desktop environment, and its programs. Make sure you have gnome-media installed. The fact that xmms and/or youtube doesn't give you sound is worrying. Do you have alsa-base, alsa-oss, alsa-tools, and alsa-utils installed? If not, install them (via synaptic or aptitude -- aptitude, if you know what you're doing, is better, but if not, then synaptic is better). Try restarting your system, to see if sound is set up automatically (it should). If not, try running alsaconf in the terminal as root (without quotes). Hopefully this will help. Good luck Jen! Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie)
On Friday 07 September 2007 05:30, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: I have a laptop with a sound card that only supports a single stream. (People on #debian helped me figure this out.) This is annoying not because i want to play twelve different sypmhonies at once through high-def systems, but just so i can listen to music while getting beeps from Gaim, or whatever. If theres no way to do this, bummer i guess. But my problem is that sometimes i seem to have something blocking the sound card and i cant figure out what it is. I dont THINK im running any sound thing ,but then if i try to run xmms i get a something's blocking your sound card message, or if i play a YouTube video i just get no sound at all. When this happens, how do i find out what's blocking hte sound card, and how do i kill this so i can play what i want? Thanks. Jen I've had this problem with a soundcard on one of my 2 machines that isn't capable of dealing with multiple audio streams. As an example I start Gaim, and at the same time am listening to Internet radio, which uses the realplayer plugin. The radio is ok, and I'm chatting away on Gaim, but getting no sounds from Gaim. I now close Opera which is connected to the Internet radio, and all the sounds from my conversion on Gaim start to play. A bit weird. They have all been stacked up, and play one after the other. The way around it for me, is to install the alsa-oss package, and start Opera as. aoss opera Now I can listen to Internet radio, and get the Gaim sounds, or play another music app at the same time as the radio is playing. To see what is grabbing the soundcard you can run: /usr/sbin/lsof -n | grep /dev/dsp Other suspects are. On Gnome the ESD sound server, and on KDE the ArtS soundserver. I use KDE, and always disable the ArtS sound server on the machine that has the Ensoniq card (ens1371 driver) My other machine has an Audigy2 soundblaster (emu10k1), and is capable of handling multiple audio streams. I can play as many music apps as I want to at a time on this card. You may find one of these on E-bay, but make sure it's one that uses the emu10k1 driver. Xmms works ok for me on both machines, but I tried to help someone resolve their Xmms problem on the French Debian list to no avail. I normally use MhWaveedit for playing my music, and that works fine on both machines, but can't say I'm too clued up on Xmms problems. Just a few suggestions. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie)
On Thursday 06 September 2007 20:30, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: I have a laptop with a sound card that only supports a single stream. (People on #debian helped me figure this out.) This is annoying not because i want to play twelve different sypmhonies at once through high-def systems, but just so i can listen to music while getting beeps from Gaim, or whatever. If theres no way to do this, bummer i guess. But my problem is that sometimes i seem to have something blocking the sound card and i cant figure out what it is. I dont THINK im running any sound thing ,but then if i try to run xmms i get a something's blocking your sound card message, or if i play a YouTube video i just get no sound at all. When this happens, how do i find out what's blocking hte sound card, and how do i kill this so i can play what i want? Thanks. Jen Installing xmms-arts might help, at least with the xmms problems. -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie)
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 23:11:46 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may have been unclear but its not that i dont get sound from these--its that when one source IS playing sound, then i cant use any of the others, so if i have XMMS playing i cant watch (that is, listen) to YouTube. And then if something that I CANT FIGURE OUT is playing, i cant use any of the others and dont know what to do about it (ie., if i know im listening to XMMS i can stop if i need to watch YouTube but i am getting sound card in use messages when i dont think im using anything at all). Several other people have made suggestions, and i thank you and will try them when i get back to my Debian machine! Jen Ah, I see. Yes, when watching crappy youtube videos, it's important to be able to listen to Bach or Chopin on xmms simultaneously to keep the world balanced. Like having a double cheese pizza with expensive wine. I'm able to watch and listen to films with totem, while listening to music using xmms, and playing a CD using gnome-cd player, at the same time. So, I imagine you should be able to as well. Hating to contradict myself, but perhaps unchecking the Enable software sound mixing (ESD) box would work (followed by restarting), to allow alsa to do its thing without the so-called Enlightened Sound Daemon, which perhaps is in conflict with alsa. I myself don't have it checked, and sound works fine on my system. Again, good luck. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie)
I have a laptop with a sound card that only supports a single stream. (People on #debian helped me figure this out.) This is annoying not because i want to play twelve different sypmhonies at once through high-def systems, but just so i can listen to music while getting beeps from Gaim, or whatever. If theres no way to do this, bummer i guess. But my problem is that sometimes i seem to have something blocking the sound card and i cant figure out what it is. I dont THINK im running any sound thing ,but then if i try to run xmms i get a something's blocking your sound card message, or if i play a YouTube video i just get no sound at all. When this happens, how do i find out what's blocking hte sound card, and how do i kill this so i can play what i want? Thanks. Jen Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
