Re: [newbie] sound record and playback
ESD is still running. I tried your hint without success (thanks anyway). Then I tried to run xmms and grecord as root, and this time it works, i.e. I am able to play an mp3 from xmms and a recorded wav from grecord without need to close one of the two apps. I had no time to investigate, I just did an 'ls -l' on /dev/sound and noticed that all the devices have 'crw' properties set for owner only (root?), and '---' for others. Could this be the in some relation with the problem I have running as normal user? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, check if ESD is still running. Some apps may kill it by mistake, forcing new apps to fall back to OSS or ALSA for sound. Secondly, try launching your app with 'esddsp' appended at the beginning, e.g.: $ esddsp xmms This should hopefully force the app to use ESD. On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:38:01 +0200, Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, yes, it's exactly what I'm using :-) The problem I have (I think) is that there are two applications (sound recorder and xmms) trying to access the sound card and one of them gets trown out with the 'sound device busy' message. Shouldn't ESD sort this out? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound record and playback
Try loading userdrake and adding your 'user' to the audio group. Also, have you configured a Bastille firewall? That can sometimes mess up ESD. On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 09:07:41 +0200, Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ESD is still running. I tried your hint without success (thanks anyway). Then I tried to run xmms and grecord as root, and this time it works, i.e. I am able to play an mp3 from xmms and a recorded wav from grecord without need to close one of the two apps. I had no time to investigate, I just did an 'ls -l' on /dev/sound and noticed that all the devices have 'crw' properties set for owner only (root?), and '---' for others. Could this be the in some relation with the problem I have running as normal user? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, check if ESD is still running. Some apps may kill it by mistake, forcing new apps to fall back to OSS or ALSA for sound. Secondly, try launching your app with 'esddsp' appended at the beginning, e.g.: $ esddsp xmms This should hopefully force the app to use ESD. On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:38:01 +0200, Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, yes, it's exactly what I'm using :-) The problem I have (I think) is that there are two applications (sound recorder and xmms) trying to access the sound card and one of them gets trown out with the 'sound device busy' message. Shouldn't ESD sort this out? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The reason I'm doing Linux is not because I think I'm needed. It's because I enjoy it, and because I happen to believe that I'm better than most at it. Not necessarily better than everybody else around there, but good enough, and with the social ties to make me unbeatable right now. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sound record and playback
I am trying to use my MDK8.2/Gnome to learn foreign language (French). To do this I need to: 1. hear a pre-recorded voice (from CD or from a .wav) 2. record my voice 3. listen to my voice recording I tried yesterday with XMM + Grecord, I am able to listen to the CD/wav, but I am having trouble listening to my recording. When I hit 'play', I get the 'soud device busy' message. Sometimes I get the same message even when trying to record. ESD is running, I thought it took care of shared access to the sound card. Am I missing some proper configuration? Or would someone suggest a different setup? regards (ou revoir?), raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] sound record and playback
Have you tried Sound Recorder? It's in the Multimedia - Sound menu (obviously). The actual name of the program that it launches is grecord, so if you don't have it there already just do a urpmi grecord and you should be all set. By the way, I've never used this application. I imagine it'll do what you need though. Vince On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 02:36, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I am trying to use my MDK8.2/Gnome to learn foreign language (French). To do this I need to: 1. hear a pre-recorded voice (from CD or from a .wav) 2. record my voice 3. listen to my voice recording I tried yesterday with XMM + Grecord, I am able to listen to the CD/wav, but I am having trouble listening to my recording. When I hit 'play', I get the 'soud device busy' message. Sometimes I get the same message even when trying to record. ESD is running, I thought it took care of shared access to the sound card. Am I missing some proper configuration? Or would someone suggest a different setup? regards (ou revoir?), raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
