Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-20 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: I'm installing it with pkgin, and I get this message: NOTE: Unfortunately, JACK wants to use a linux /proc filesystem... It's a DFly binary; does it know to look in the emulated /proc? ha - I think I didn't see this because I just built everything in /usr/pkgsrc/audio to

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-20 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: It's a DFly binary; does it know to look in the emulated /proc? to directly answer your question - no idea! but its doing something! :) - Chris

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-20 Thread Chris Turner
Chris Turner wrote: There's some interesting stuff going on in OpenBSD w/r/t midi - Based on a check of the NetBSD manual (and not the source) - it appears that NetBSD has grown a divergent (w/r/t OpenBSD) midi(4) as well..

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-20 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Chris Turner c.tur...@199technologies.org wrote: Pierre Abbat wrote: What's jackd? Jack is a sound server / time transport sync patching setup designed mainly for audio production / music / etc - originally designed for linux but has since been made

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-20 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Chris Turner c.tur...@199technologies.org wrote: Pierre Abbat wrote: It's not only about that. There is a LOT of improvements in audio on OpenBSD

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: What's jackd? Jack is a sound server / time transport sync patching setup designed mainly for audio production / music / etc - originally designed for linux but has since been made portable: http://jackaudio.org/ It's nearly-OT but there's quite a bit about multimedia

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-19 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday 19 October 2010 16:52:15 Chris Turner wrote: Pierre Abbat wrote: What's jackd? Jack is a sound server / time transport sync patching setup designed mainly for audio production / music / etc - originally designed for linux but has since been made portable: http://jackaudio.org/

sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
I open a sound file in Wavesurfer and attempt to play it and get silence. It used to work months ago. I try to play a MIDI file in Timidity and it says Couldn't open output device. XMMS still works, as does catting to /dev/dsp. Any idea what's wrong? I'm not sure what the sound card is, but

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: I open a sound file in Wavesurfer and attempt to play it and get silence. It used to work months ago. I try to play a MIDI file in Timidity and it says Couldn't open output device. XMMS still works, as does catting to /dev/dsp. Any idea what's wrong? I'm not sure what the

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday 18 October 2010 18:34:54 Chris Turner wrote: no idea about this particular app - but I do know lots of things are gradually moving to jackd and/or pulse audio, (maybe) with fall back support for traditional OSS/(alsa in the linux case) - What's jackd? Is MIDI I/O supported in the