Re: OSS apps vs. ALSA apps

2008-03-06 Thread Gustin Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | | | I hate ALSA and dmix: dmix is a userspace library plug-in, and not at | kernel level, so not only do some apps not conform to it (they don't | /have/ to link against that library), it has latency problems too. I | welcome the day when the newly

Re: OSS apps vs. ALSA apps

2008-02-24 Thread Toby Smithe
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:44 PM, raydar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I discovered in the Ubuntu forums that running an app as an argument to > "aoss" is a/the way to invoke alsa-oss, so I typed > > aoss gtick > > in a terminal, got > > /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy > > and also trie

Re: OSS apps vs. ALSA apps

2008-02-24 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Sunday 24 February 2008, raydar wrote: > in a terminal, got > > /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy When something is busy, try seeing what's making it so with fuser. fuser /dev/dsp I can't get a return on that here and now to show an example, but I think it returns the PID of whatever pro

Re: OSS apps vs. ALSA apps

2008-02-24 Thread raydar
> On Sunday 24 February 2008, raydar wrote: > >> I think I spoke too soon if I thought alsa-oss would be the silver >> bullet for Gtick + Jack compatibility: I installed the alsa-oss package, >> but even after a reboot, nothing has changed; Gtick still gives me the >> "Couldn't start metronome.

Re: OSS apps vs. ALSA apps

2008-02-24 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Sunday 24 February 2008, raydar wrote: > I think I spoke too soon if I thought alsa-oss would be the silver > bullet for Gtick + Jack compatibility: I installed the alsa-oss package, > but even after a reboot, nothing has changed; Gtick still gives me the > "Couldn't start metronome. Please chec

Re: OSS apps vs. ALSA apps

2008-02-24 Thread Toby Smithe
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:04 PM, raydar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do I need to configure the alsa-oss package somehow, or configure Jack > to incorporate or recognize it? Ok, though I know nothing about this particular package set, the question raises itself that, why should a JACK-connective

Re: OSS apps vs. ALSA apps

2008-02-24 Thread raydar
> -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:13:21 -0600 > From: raydar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: OSS apps vs. ALSA apps > To: ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: <[EMAIL

Re: OSS apps vs. ALSA apps

2008-02-23 Thread Cory K.
raydar wrote: > If there isn't any reason not to install alsa-oss, then should come > installed automatically by Ubuntu Studio so that Gtick plays nice with > all the Jack applications out of the box? It should. Ill get it added. -Cory -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@l

OSS apps vs. ALSA apps

2008-02-23 Thread raydar
I finally discovered why I couldn't run Creox and practice guitar using Gtick for a metronome: Gtick is for OSS, and it throws up the error "Couldn't start metronome. Please check if specified sound device and sample file are accessible" if I try to start it clicking after opening & start