Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-22 Thread Raffaele Morelli
lsof man page illustrates a -t option which lets you pipe terse output to kill, which makes me suppose 'kill -9 pid' does not kill hanging files belonging to processes. raffaele There's no such thing, that I know of, as 'kill hanging files'. 'lsof' will give you process id's (PID

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-22 Thread Bob McGowan
Raffaele Morelli wrote: lsof man page illustrates a -t option which lets you pipe terse output to kill, which makes me suppose 'kill -9 pid' does not kill hanging files belonging to processes. raffaele There's no such thing, that I know of, as

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-21 Thread Raffaele Morelli
pkill is a better killall? it reminds me to the differences between top and htop (recently someone posted about it). But how is it better? Really don't know, my rule is the one which fits to your needs. I always use killall and feel comfortable with. Sometimes I use kill, e.g. when killing

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-21 Thread Bob McGowan
Raffaele Morelli wrote: pkill is a better killall? it reminds me to the differences between top and htop (recently someone posted about it). But how is it better? Really don't know, my rule is the one which fits to your needs. I always use killall and feel comfortable

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-20 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:52:22 +0100 Raffaele Morelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LAP:/# kill artsd -su: kill: artsd: arguments must be process or job IDs Ken, you need further manual reading about processes management. man ps man kill man killall Which makes me wonder:

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
LAP:/# kill artsd -su: kill: artsd: arguments must be process or job IDs Ken, you need further manual reading about processes management. man ps man kill man killall Which makes me wonder: what's the difference between killall and pkill? pkill is a better killall? it reminds me to

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
If you are getting sound from that card using the cat, then I'm not sure you need the isa stuff as the card is working and the kernel is sending sound to it. Ken pointed to alsa site, where it is said that without an isa-pnp module the cards won't get properly configured.

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
In view the fact that the first thing everybody advised me to do was to disable artsd. On examination I found out that artsd is a KDE creation which wants to monopolize all sound operations to the exclusion of all others, even others part of the KDE empire, such as KsCD and Kaffeine. noatun

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-18 Thread Chris Lale
Ken Heard wrote: [...] I consequently installed four packages which had sdl in the name: libsdl1.2debian, libsdl1.2debian-alsa, libsdl-net1.2 and libsdl-sound1.2. I tried to purge these packages, but aptitude wanted to remove a whole series of other packages including grub and icedove.

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-17 Thread Ken Heard
First, further to Andrew Sackville-West's (ASW) admonition Ken -- keep on plugging away... you're getting closer, yes I am closer -- much closer in fact -- but not out of the woods yet. In view the fact that the first thing everybody advised me to do was to disable artsd. On examination I

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-17 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I haven't even read this entire (huge) thread, but it seems strange to me that KDE applications don't work with arts. Can it be that the apps are misconfigured to use ALSA directly but you are running arts? You should either: 1)Leave arts on with application set up to use it or 2)Set

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-17 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 17 March 2007 11:12, Ken Heard wrote: Another factor may or may not be relevant. Two days ago I compiled from source and installed dosemu-1.3.4. The installation was successful in that it is allowing me to use my beloved dos based applications. However, the last message returned

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/3/16, Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I assume that in alsamixer, at the bottom of each slide there should a 00 indication, not MM, to indicate open. The master and PCM (What is PCM?) were 00 and full on, but not the others. For good measure I changed them all to 00 and full on. I still

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Ken Heard
Raffaele Morelli wrote: 1. Try kill artsd deamon if running... 2. from a root shell /etc/alsa reload 2. lsmod | grep snd, so you are sure that snd modules are loaded 4. cat /dev/urandom /dev/audio do you hear something? (white noise) 5. if you got xine installed (dvd video player) try a DVD,

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Raffaele Morelli
LAP:~# artsd stop Link points to /tmp/ksocket-root can't create mcop directory I usually kill artsd LAP:~# /etc/alsa reload -su: /etc/alsa: is a directory sorry, it was /etc/init.d/alsa reload LAP:~# lsmod|grep snd snd_opl3_synth 13924 0 snd_seq_instr 7392 1

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Ken Heard
Raffaele Morelli wrote: LAP:~# artsd stop Link points to /tmp/ksocket-root can't create mcop directory I usually kill artsd I tried: LAP:/# kill artsd -su: kill: artsd: arguments must be process or job IDs LAP:~# /etc/alsa reload -su: /etc/alsa: is a directory

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Ken Heard
Also found the following: LAP:/# find -iname isapnp ./sys/module/snd_opl3sa2/parameters/isapnp ./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4/drivers/pnp/isapnp LAP:/# Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Raffaele Morelli
LAP:/# kill artsd -su: kill: artsd: arguments must be process or job IDs Ken, you need further manual reading about processes management. man ps man kill man killall LAP:~# /etc/alsa reload -su: /etc/alsa: is a directory sorry, it was /etc/init.d/alsa reload LAP:/#

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 16 March 2007 15:26, Ken Heard wrote: Raffaele Morelli wrote: LAP:~# artsd stop Link points to /tmp/ksocket-root can't create mcop directory I usually kill artsd I tried: LAP:/# kill artsd -su: kill: artsd: arguments must be process or job IDs You can disable

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 03:52:46PM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: no isa-pnp module to load... ... I think you need some isa related tool to deal with this card or an isa capable kernel, i.e. recompile with isa support flag turned on. I don't want to mislead you but I would go this way.

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:52:46 +0100 Raffaele Morelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LAP:/# kill artsd -su: kill: artsd: arguments must be process or job IDs Ken, you need further manual reading about processes management. man ps man kill man killall Which makes me wonder: what's the

Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Ken Heard
I have always known that sound was available on Linux. When I first used Linux RH8 with KDE in a P4 box, I did not have sound on installation in July 2003. At the time it was all I could do to get working what I really needed; sound was not a priority. I did not really miss it because I

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 04:02:46PM +0700, Ken Heard wrote: I have always known that sound was available on Linux. When I first used Linux RH8 with KDE in a P4 box, I did not have sound on installation in July 2003. At the time it was all I could do to get working what I really needed;

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/3/15, Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have always known that sound was available on Linux. When I first used Linux RH8 with KDE in a P4 box, I did not have sound on installation in July 2003. At the time it was all I could do to get working what I really needed; sound was not a priority.

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2007/3/15, Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You miss alsa* packages, they are the only thing you need. Just have a look to discover output to investigate if your laptop ships a somewhat strange soundcard model. you should also add the user to the group audio (and video

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Raffaele Morelli
you should also add the user to the group audio (and video ?). Yes, user must be in group 'audio' but I never did it manually... Are you sure about the need of manual adds? Or some post/pre installation scripts takes care about that? regards raffaele

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:55:17 +0100 Raffaele Morelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you should also add the user to the group audio (and video ?). Yes, user must be in group 'audio' but I never did it manually... Are you sure about the need of manual adds? Or some post/pre installation scripts

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Kent West
Celejar wrote: The default groups to which new users are added (when created with 'adduser --add-extra-groups') is specified in '/etc/adduser.conf' by the line beginning 'EXTRA_GROUPS' Cool! I didn't know that. Just learned something. Thanks! -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Celejar wrote: The default groups to which new users are added (when created with 'adduser --add-extra-groups') is specified in '/etc/adduser.conf' by the line beginning 'EXTRA_GROUPS'; the default does include 'audio'. On my Sid system, the (non-root) user that I created during install

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:22:32 -0500 Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Celejar wrote: The default groups to which new users are added (when created with 'adduser --add-extra-groups') is specified in '/etc/adduser.conf' by the line beginning 'EXTRA_GROUPS' Cool! I didn't know

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:31:15 +0100 Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Celejar wrote: The default groups to which new users are added (when created with 'adduser --add-extra-groups') is specified in '/etc/adduser.conf' by the line beginning 'EXTRA_GROUPS'; the default does include

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Ken Heard
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: you should also add the user to the group audio (and video ?). as root: # adduser your-user-name audio # adduser your-user-name video Both the users had already been added to those two groups, but not by me. Regards, Ken Heard --

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Ken Heard
Kevin Mark wrote: the alsa packages are needed. IIRC alsa-base,alsa-tools,alsa-utils. the run as root: alsaconf and it should do the rest. I already had installed alsa-base and alsa-utils, but not alsa-tools; so I installed alsa-tools and alsa-tool-gui; aptitude also installed one lib file.

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread H.S.
Ken Heard wrote: I already had installed alsa-base and alsa-utils, but not alsa-tools; so I installed alsa-tools and alsa-tool-gui; aptitude also installed one lib file. I then ran as root alsaconf which did its thing, including detecting the builtin sound card, and told me to enjoy.

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:29:07AM +0700, Ken Heard wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: the alsa packages are needed. IIRC alsa-base,alsa-tools,alsa-utils. the run as root: alsaconf and it should do the rest. I already had installed alsa-base and alsa-utils, but not alsa-tools; so I installed

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Ken Heard
I assume that in alsamixer, at the bottom of each slide there should a 00 indication, not MM, to indicate open. The master and PCM (What is PCM?) were 00 and full on, but not the others. For good measure I changed them all to 00 and full on. I still could not open an audio CD or a newscast.

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Kent West
Ken Heard wrote: I then exited my user and entered it again. As instructed I ran aplay /usr/share/sound/alsa/*.wav which returned the following: aplay: main:550: audio open error: Device or resource busy If you did this from within X (or with X running), shut down X completely and try again.

OO-Impress Sound-Kompatibilitaet Linux/Windows

2005-04-24 Thread Al Bogner
Während es mit OpenOffic.org Impress 1.1.3 von SuSE 9.2 kein Problem gab, den Sound einer Präsentation unter Windows abzuspielen, die unter Linux erstellt wurde, funktioniert das unter Debian / Sarge nicht. Unter Debian sind diese Pakete installiert: ii  openoffice.org 1.1+20040420-2 

RE: Sound and Linux Kernel 2.6

2004-02-29 Thread MacNean Tyrrell
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andreas Janssen Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sound and Linux Kernel 2.6 Hello MacNean Tyrrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ok so I have Debian installed, and I like

RE: Sound and Linux Kernel 2.6

2004-02-29 Thread MacNean Tyrrell
Andreas Janssen, thanks so much, best help every. Sound now works. SO happy. Thanks again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sound and Linux Kernel 2.6

2004-02-28 Thread MacNean Tyrrell
Ok so I have Debian installed, and I like it a lot, but I cant get the sound card to work, cant even get ALSA to work. So I decided to just run Knoppix from the CD drive, and it successfully detects my sound card, and it works there. I really dont want to use Knoppix, just want to use

Re: Sound and Linux Kernel 2.6

2004-02-28 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello MacNean Tyrrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ok so I have Debian installed, and I like it a lot, but I can't get the sound card to work, can't even get ALSA to work. So I decided to just run Knoppix from the CD drive, and it successfully detects my sound card, and it works there. I

RE: Sound and Linux Kernel 2.6

2004-02-28 Thread MacNean Tyrrell
Janssen Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sound and Linux Kernel 2.6 Hello MacNean Tyrrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ok so I have Debian installed, and I like it a lot, but I can't get the sound card to work, can't even get ALSA to work. So I decided

Sound cards Linux?

2001-08-22 Thread David Frischknecht
Hello, I just want to express my appreciation for all the help I've gotten from the members of this list. I'm practically a Linux newbie, so all of the configuration that's needed to get it up and running is unfamiliar to me. I'd like to know how I could get my ESS Audiodrive sound card to work

Re: Sound cards Linux?

2001-08-22 Thread Jason Majors
Most SB compatibles mean the SB16 'standard'. You need to add the lines soundcore sb to /etc/modules to get it to load at boot. and run insmod soundcore and insmod sb to get it to run now. On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:53:35AM -0700, David Frischknecht scribbled... Hello, I just want to

[Potato] IRQ/DMA/IO config with ISA PnP card (Was: Re: Sound cards Linux?)

2001-08-22 Thread Phil
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 08:42:10AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: Most SB compatibles mean the SB16 'standard'. You need to add the lines soundcore sb to /etc/modules to get it to load at boot. and run insmod soundcore and insmod sb to get it to run now. On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:53:35AM

Compaq ESS1887 sound and Linux?

1999-03-24 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Am getting ready to reinstall onto my shiny empty 6G drive in a Compaq Presario 4840, and would like to avoid the only problem I had last time - the sound wouldn't work. No playing CD's :-( It auto-recognized the ATI Rage Pro AGP, the Compaq DVD, everything, but the sound didn't function at all,

Re: Compaq ESS1887 sound and Linux?

1999-03-24 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: Am getting ready to reinstall onto my shiny empty 6G drive in a Compaq Presario 4840, and would like to avoid the only problem I had last time - the sound wouldn't work. No playing CD's :-( It auto-recognized the ATI Rage Pro AGP, the Compaq DVD,

RealAudio 5.0b1: NO sound under linux 2.x

1997-10-16 Thread Oz Dror
I have just installed the new version of RealAudio, but there is no sound. I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages: Oct 16 09:25:32 OZ kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer sound does work for me in RealAudio 3.0 and other application. Any ideas? -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror,

Re: RealAudio 5.0b1: NO sound under linux 2.x

1997-10-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Oz Dror wrote: I have just installed the new version of RealAudio, but there is no sound. I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages: Oct 16 09:25:32 OZ kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer sound does work for me in RealAudio 3.0 and other

Re: RealAudio 5.0b1: NO sound under linux 2.x

1997-10-16 Thread Joey Hess
Oz Dror wrote: I have just installed the new version of RealAudio, but there is no sound. I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages: Oct 16 09:25:32 OZ kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer sound does work for me in RealAudio 3.0 and other application. Any ideas?