On Wed March 28 2007 08:42, Carlos E. R. wrote: <snip lots of interesting background info> > Ok, I have amarok playing (in gnome). I try to use festival, it fails > (normal in my system). I pause the play, festival works. This is how it > always did.
Always? I would look at all the documentation you can locate covering your sound hardware and driver/module. I have a 'cheap' all-in-one mainboard and it can mix sounds received simultaneously from multiple applications without doing so in serial fashion. Somehow I don't think this is unusual, even for Linux, in 2007? > But sometimes, something somewhere gets stuck, and festival doesn't work. > It is usually festival, because I have a cron job with it to tell me the > time every half hour... Now I *know* I am corresponding with a proper geek! :-) This must have something to do with Spanish culture... I received a test Ekiga call yesterday from a girl running Ubuntu in Spain. She said "I hate Windows" and "Linux saved my life!" (Don't get your hopes up: I have a cat who is older than she is and she has a boyfriend who is a systems administrator!) > The funny thing is that lsof doesn't list /dev/dsp as being in use (but > amarok is using it, it is playing). How then can I know who/what has sound > in use? I haven't a clue, Carolos. lsof shows /dev/dsp in use here when sound is active. I still suspect this is an integration issue. regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
