On Tuesday 06 March 2007 10:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:34:57 +0000, Mick wrote: > > Since aplay is hard masked, what external player should I use? > > aplay is not masked, it is part of alsa-utils.
Oops, you're right. I am (almost) sure it had been hard masked some time in the past, I remember emerge --sync telling me all about it. Anyway, it seems that playsound now works fine and I have added -arts to my USE flags. While we're at it I might as well share this little sound problem/feature with you: When my laptop boots up the sound is always muted. To kick start it I need to either increase/decrease the volume (Master, or PCM) using alsamixer, or press the dedicated volume hardware buttons on the laptop keyboard. It can get more weird too: If I have launched an application that uses sound directly like e.g. Amarok, then in addition I need to increase the volume to 100% to get sound from both speakers. Otherwise only the RH speaker works. Does this all make any sense to you? -- Regards, Mick
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