[issue8618] test_winsound failing on Windows Server 2008

2010-05-08 Thread Brian Curtin
Brian Curtin cur...@acm.org added the comment: Seems like this happens because there is no playback device installed. Apparently there are audio drivers install but no playback device is configured to use them. I'm looking for a command line tool or some other way to find out details of

[issue8618] test_winsound failing on Windows Server 2008

2010-05-08 Thread Brian Curtin
Brian Curtin cur...@acm.org added the comment: Attached is a patch which uses the multimedia mixer API to find out how many devices are known by the mixer. If none are known, 0 will be returned, and thus tests will be skipped. -- keywords: +patch Added file:

[issue8618] test_winsound failing on Windows Server 2008

2010-05-04 Thread Brian Curtin
New submission from Brian Curtin cur...@acm.org: Some of the test_alias_* functions in test_winsound are failing with a RuntimeError Failed to play sound when run on Server 2008 R2. The sound from each test exists in the registry so the test doesn't end up getting skipped. I'm guessing there