right, so I haven't really used sound daemons up until now, but I'd like to play music and be able to listen to festival say "message from Mogest" when I get an ICQ message from Mogest.
So I installed esound. This seemed to work OK for about a day, but then made bizarre buzzing sounds, often related to disk or mouse activity. arts and using /dev/dsp directly don't have this problem. At least, that's how it behaves with Linux 2.6.3. I've just compiled Linux 2.6.6, and with that, the volume seems to be stuck very low. Changing the volume in zinf doesn't seem to have any effect, using alsamixer does, but you have to turn the volume right up to hear anything. The buzzing seems to have stopped. arts, on the other hand, seems to work OK, but I get these messages on the xterminal: ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:494:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:494:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:494:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed: Broken pipe they just keep going, I get one every 30 seconds to a minute. This is the same behaviour under both Linux 2.6.3 and 2.6.6. My hardware is a Thinkpad R31, which has an Intel i810 onboard audio controller. I can't seem to find anything too helpful on google. on the bright side, using esddsp or artsdsp to wrap festival seems to work fine. -- |Andrew Tarr | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://arc.stuff.gen.nz |GPG Public Key:- http://arc.stuff.gen.nz/andrew.gpg |_____ "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions" --Francis Bacon |~~~~~ |
