--- Myles Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2001 10:02:24 -0700 (PDT)
> Net Llama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > --- Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > As it turned out the modprobe worked fine. The problem was I used
> > > MAKEDEV audio to setup /dev/dsp and this got permissions 660.
> Once
> > I
> > > changed the permissions to 666, marvelous sound.
> > >
> > > Also, it appears that most distros have the sox package installed
> by
> > > default, and xfce uses sox (or play) to render sounds. Gentoo
> > didn't
> > > have this package marked as a dependancy for xfce.
> >
> > I dont' think that's correct. I use XFCE, and do not have sox (or
> > play)
> > installed, and i can render sounds without a problem. XFCE uses
> > xfsound.
>
> xfsound uses xfplay to render sounds. xfplay is a script, here are the
> contents:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # This script is part of XFce
> # "ossdsp" option submitted by "Sami Tikka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> exec sox "$1" -t ossdsp /dev/dsp
>
> one thing i noted w/ xfce on my machine was that sound refused to work
> at all (only under xfce) until i built and installed my own 2.4
> kernel.
> weird
How did you determine that xfsound uses xfplay?
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