Re: Sound Alerts

2000-09-05 Thread guy keren
? Do the alerts get queued to the driver? subba, i think that if you play with this for a bit, you'll realize that sound alerts tend to be VERY annoying, and disturb people in the area. if your system emits alerts in a rate that could cause 2 or 3 different sounds at the same time - i'd suggest you

Re: Sound Alerts

2000-09-05 Thread Oren Held
Hello Subba I can just tell you that my Sound Card, Creative SBLive Value, Can play some .wav files TOGETHER. My older SB, used to queue every sound I played.. Maybe use the kernel driver, instead of OSS.. Cya, Oren = To

Re: Sound Alerts

2000-09-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
At 14:09 9/5/00 +0300, Oren Held wrote: Hello Subba I can just tell you that my Sound Card, Creative SBLive Value, Can play some .wav files TOGETHER. Actually, any sound card can do that, if one installs the EsounD sound daemon and uses esdplay or esdcat to play the files. Shlomi

Re: Sound Alerts

2000-09-05 Thread Nimrod Mesika
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 06:00:42PM +, Subba Rao wrote: Now, when I tried to set off 3 alerts at the sametime, I get the following message, sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy OSS is a simple system. Only one process can open /dev/dsp at any time. So if one

Sound Alerts

2000-09-04 Thread Subba Rao
One of our key systems has been configured to create a sound for an alert on the system. We have setup several alerts on this system. The sound driver used on this system is from OSS. Now, what happens when multiple alerts are set off at the same time? Do the alerts get queued to the driver?