Andrew wrote: > 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.
I'd suggest running alsamixer and having a look at all the unusual controls. You'll have to scroll right abit probably. Then try muting or unmuting some of them and see if that fixes the problem. For example I've a cheap old sound card and alsamixer throws up a whole lot of controls that I have no Idea about called such things as ISO55... ac18bit etc I've found that when some of these are enabled they do such things as switch off sound, make it alot quiteter or alot louder and alot of other things. I think ALSA might be accessing a few things that the Card makers don't generally let the public play with and that are supposed to be controled or something by the windows drivers. Chad > > 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 > > |~~~~~
