Multiple apps playing sound (xmms,vmware etc) on Sarge

Hi, I want to share sound between apps (e.g. 2 VMware session with Windows playing sound while listening to my favorite MP3's with xmms). I have followed the instructions from the alsa site and I can play multiple MP3s with alsaplayer and mpg321 at the same time. But I cannot start a VMWare

Re: Scrolling chirps while playing sound!

Adam Funk wrote: Whenever I'm playing sound files (using xmms, grip and other applications), the computer adds very short interruptions to the sound when lines scroll on any visible application. Hi Adam. It may sound odd, but check that DMA is enabled on your hard drives. (hdparm -I /dev/hda

Scrolling chirps while playing sound!

Whenever I'm playing sound files (using xmms, grip and other applications), the computer adds very short interruptions to the sound when lines scroll on any visible application. So if I have something spewing a lot of output to an xterm, it chirps a lot if the whole xterm is visible; not at all

Re: kernel oops playing sound -- sound now wedged

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 01:04:44AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Sounds like time for lsof to see what is keeping the sound system busy. Of course I rebooted days ago. I did use lsof but aside from reporting that various sound modules used each other, it wasn't helpful. As for compiling

Re: kernel oops playing sound -- sound now wedged

On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 13:14, Carl Fink wrote: I used gmplayer (from Christian Marillat's excellent archive) to play a video file this morning. Gmplayer froze, and I had to kill it. Now *no* sound will play, and this is in /var/log/messages: Jul 19 07:41:30 nitpicking kernel: printing

kernel oops playing sound -- sound now wedged

I used gmplayer (from Christian Marillat's excellent archive) to play a video file this morning. Gmplayer froze, and I had to kill it. Now *no* sound will play, and this is in /var/log/messages: Jul 19 07:41:30 nitpicking kernel: printing eip: Jul 19 07:41:30 nitpicking kernel: df935efb

Re: Playing sound over the network

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:03:45PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:32:55PM +0100, Michael Schulze wrote: So, is there a way of getting /dev/dsp (or whatever) to be forwarded over the network, so that I can play stuff locally with apps not having to know that

Re: Playing sound over the network

So, is there a way of getting /dev/dsp (or whatever) to be forwarded over the network, so that I can play stuff locally with apps not having to know that any jiggery-pokery is going on? i once used esound (Enlightened Sound Daemon) to forward sound over the network. i.e. xmms comes with a

Re: Playing sound over the network

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:32:55PM +0100, Michael Schulze wrote: So, is there a way of getting /dev/dsp (or whatever) to be forwarded over the network, so that I can play stuff locally with apps not having to know that any jiggery-pokery is going on? i once used esound (Enlightened

ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

I've been unable to get alsa working on my Woody installation. Here's what I've done so far: * installed/compiled alsa-source * run alsaconf to configure my sound card * run update-modules to update modules.conf * cat /proc/interrupts to make sure I don't have an IRQ conflict (I don't) * looked

Re: ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Kurt Lieber wrote: I've been unable to get alsa working on my Woody installation. Here's what I've done so far: * installed/compiled alsa-source * run alsaconf to configure my sound card * run update-modules to update modules.conf * cat /proc/interrupts to make sure

Re: ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

did you forgot to unmute the card? under WARNING you should have read WARNING!!! The mixer channels for the ALSA driver are muted by default!!! ** You would use some ALSA or OSS mixer to set the appropriate volume. you can

Re: ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

No -- I did that using: amixer set Master on amixer set PCM on amixer set Master 75% amixer set PCM 75% Thanks for the suggestion, though. --kurt On Thursday 11 October 2001 h:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you forgot to unmute the card? under WARNING you should have read

Re: ALSA loaded, but not playing sound

That definitely wasn't the answer I wanted to hear, but you were right. I junked all the debian alsa packages, downloaded the latest source, compiled it and had it up and running in no time. For anyone else who runs into the same problem, I was using the deb packages from testing. Thanks

cdrom error - not playing sound

Help! My CDROM was working yesterday? I don't know what is happening now. I can access data disks on this devices just fine. When I put in a music CD and trying to play it use something like cdplay or Xplaycd the cdrom does not start playing music. cdplay is reporting an error as below when

Re: cdrom error - not playing sound

Yobb == Yobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yobb Help! Yobb My CDROM was working yesterday? I don't know what is Yobb happening now. I can access data disks on this devices just Yobb fine. When I put in a music CD and trying to play it use Yobb something like cdplay or

[OT] Playing sound file over the modem

Hi, Sorry for this off-topic post. Does any of you have an idea how I could implement the following scenario under Linux ? - have the modem dial some (voice) number - keep the line open even when answered by a human - then play some sound file (pre-recorded alert messages) over the modem line -

Playing Sound

Hello, My soundcard is working. But I only can play cd's as root. Is there a way to play cd's as user in X-windows, fvwm95. I can't mount cd's as user with the TK-Desk Application Bar. How can I Change this. I already can mount CD-rom's as user in the Text-mode. But how can I mount CD's and

Re: Playing Sound

Cuno Sonnemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can also play .au files only as root, how can I change that. Put yourself in the audio group in /etc/group -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten