On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 08:27:39PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 14:39:14 May 04, Jean-michel Bessot wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a problem to start jackd to use my audiophile 2496 card. > > > > $ jackd -d sun > > jackd 0.109.10 > > [copyright information] > > JACK compiled with System V SHM support. > > loading driver .. > > Enhanced3DNow! detected > > SSE2 detected > > sun_driver: setting capture parameters failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > cannot load driver module sun > > no message buffer overruns > > > > I use the Openbsd 4.3 -current (GENERIC#841 i386) and the envy driver > > is loaded. > > > > $ dmesg | grep envy > > envy0 at pci4 dev 6 function 0 "IC Ensemble Envy24 I/O Ctrlr" rev 0x02: irq > > 10 > > audio0 at envy0 > > > > When I use mplayer -ao sun, sound "works" but I need jack to play music. > > > > How can I resolve this problem ? > > What makes you imagine that jack is necessary to play music? > > jack is needed only for advanced DAW work.
imo, it's the best (actually, the only even halfway reasonable) sound server for FOSS today. the developers have a goal, and they are working toward that goal and keeping the code readable along the way. none of the other sound servers have been able to do that. artsd got bloated and abandoned, esd and pulse sources are a mess and they both have serious lack of focus. jack is perfectly fine for casual desktop usage. I even wrote a jack backend for SDL so I can play games and watch youtube at the same time ;P > For playing music on OpenBSD > with mplayer all you need is the sun audio driver and mplayer stock > package comes packaged with it and it "just works". yeah, but, what if you want to have two mplayer's running at the same time? > Does > > # cat /bsd > /dev/audio > > create any noise? > > -Girish > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
