On Sun, 8 Jul 2001 10:29:42 -0700 (PDT)
Net Llama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- 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?
xfsound is the xfce module with which you set up system 'event' sounds,
when you click on 'xfsound' in one of the 'drawers' on the panel you
will see 'xfplay' in the "command" box. This leads me to believe that
xfsound calls xfplay ;)
That and it was brought up on the xfce list the other day...
HTH
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