Re: [gentoo-user] music.raw?
On 6/13/05, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is capable of playing music, but I have that feature disabled. It didn't make the music.raw file before the gnome upgrade... On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 02:13 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Michael Sullivan schreef: I've discovered that whenever I run monsterz the file is created. I don't know why. monsterz is a python script, so I opened it up in vi and searched for the string music.raw but did not find it in /usr/games/monsterz. Maybe something the pygame module or python itself, but I don't know how to check for that... Does the game play music? Maybe the file is how it converts the music from whatever form it's in, wherever it's kept, to something that is played during the course of the game. Maybe it's the music itself. I don't know a lot about this, and certainly not about monsterz specifically, never having played it, but I've seen games get up to all kinds of hijinks in order to play music or sound effects, under both Win and Lin. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I googled a bit for music.raw. It seems to be created by libmikmod when the library isn't able to get an audio output device. Maybe something changed in your audio setup? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] music.raw?
On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 22:30 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: There is a file that keeps mysteriously appearing in my home folder called music.raw. I have no idea where it's coming from. I'm not doing anything with my computer that I don't normally do. This has just started since the recent gnome upgrade. It always has a size of 0 bytes, so I don't see what the point of it is. Does anyone know what this file is and/or how to keep it from coming back? How odd. I'm using GNOME 2.10 and have no such file. If you remove it, does it reappear when you start GNOME again? Perhaps when you're running GNOME you can using the `lsof` utility (emerge sys-process/lsof) to see what process is creating/using the file. Hth. -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key ID: 0x87C59026 GPG Public Key Fingerprint: A5E9 EA8E 146B 4B44 E26A 385B 278C 74CC 87C5 9026 Encrypted and/or Signed correspondence preferred. GPG Public Key available upon request or from pgp.mit.edu's public key server. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] music.raw?
I've discovered that whenever I run monsterz the file is created. I don't know why. monsterz is a python script, so I opened it up in vi and searched for the string music.raw but did not find it in /usr/games/monsterz. Maybe something the pygame module or python itself, but I don't know how to check for that... On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 23:30 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 22:30 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: There is a file that keeps mysteriously appearing in my home folder called music.raw. I have no idea where it's coming from. I'm not doing anything with my computer that I don't normally do. This has just started since the recent gnome upgrade. It always has a size of 0 bytes, so I don't see what the point of it is. Does anyone know what this file is and/or how to keep it from coming back? How odd. I'm using GNOME 2.10 and have no such file. If you remove it, does it reappear when you start GNOME again? Perhaps when you're running GNOME you can using the `lsof` utility (emerge sys-process/lsof) to see what process is creating/using the file. Hth. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] music.raw?
Michael Sullivan schreef: I've discovered that whenever I run monsterz the file is created. I don't know why. monsterz is a python script, so I opened it up in vi and searched for the string music.raw but did not find it in /usr/games/monsterz. Maybe something the pygame module or python itself, but I don't know how to check for that... Does the game play music? Maybe the file is how it converts the music from whatever form it's in, wherever it's kept, to something that is played during the course of the game. Maybe it's the music itself. I don't know a lot about this, and certainly not about monsterz specifically, never having played it, but I've seen games get up to all kinds of hijinks in order to play music or sound effects, under both Win and Lin. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] music.raw?
It is capable of playing music, but I have that feature disabled. It didn't make the music.raw file before the gnome upgrade... On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 02:13 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Michael Sullivan schreef: I've discovered that whenever I run monsterz the file is created. I don't know why. monsterz is a python script, so I opened it up in vi and searched for the string music.raw but did not find it in /usr/games/monsterz. Maybe something the pygame module or python itself, but I don't know how to check for that... Does the game play music? Maybe the file is how it converts the music from whatever form it's in, wherever it's kept, to something that is played during the course of the game. Maybe it's the music itself. I don't know a lot about this, and certainly not about monsterz specifically, never having played it, but I've seen games get up to all kinds of hijinks in order to play music or sound effects, under both Win and Lin. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
