Hallo, Alberto Monteiro hat gesagt: // Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Now I have a new error: a 5-second wav file takes an infinite > time to aplay, with no sound output. I have to abort and kill it.
It may not seem so, but this it's much better. My (string) guess is, that some other program is occupying the sound devices now. Do you run some sound daemon like Artsd under KDE or esound with Gnome? If yes, you should be able to deactivate them in the Control Center, or whatever those modern Desktops use for that. You could also look in the output of "ps aux" for something like "artsd" or "esd". And you can find out if something and who is using your soundcard with fuser: $ fuser /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: 10084 10084m 10086 10086m 10087 10087m 10088 10088m 10090 10090m 10091 10091m 10095 10095m $ ps 10086 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 10084 ? S 0:00 alsaplayer > > This reeks of permission errors on the audio devices. Could you > > recreate the devices with the snddevices script from the ALSA > > distribution? > > > Is that a good idea? The manual says that snddevices shouldn't > be used after 0.9.something. I'm not sure about this, can someone else confirm this? But anyway, you can at first try without that measure. > > Better have them owned by root.audio "chown > > root.audio /dev/snd/*" and mode 660: "chmod 660 /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp* > > ..." so that only members of group audio are allowed to use them. > > > Did that. Same error: aplay takes an infinite time to run, etc. See above. > Ok, I will recreate the snddevices and see what happens. > > No. Same error: aplay takes an infinite time to run, etc. > > (You probably don't have the same cards as I do) > > > Oops. lsmod | grep oss returns _no_ lines at all. What does it mean? This means, that none of ALSA's OSS modules is loaded and that xmms will probably not work yet. It might also be, that after you tried running xmms, the modules with get loaded afterwards. You should then see them. ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
