Re: Yet another simple sound question....

2005-08-21 Thread Theodore
Στις Saturday 20 August 2005 05:10, ο/η Eric Murphy έγραψε: > I had thought that my Sound Blaster Audigy driver (emu10k1) only > supported 2 channels (or 2 speakers) however upon playin an mp3 > today i noticed that I was getting sound out of all my speakers > includeing my sub. So how do i adject

sound question #2

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Murphy
I had thought that my Sound Blaster Audigy driver (emu10k1) only supported 2 channels (or 2 speakers) however upon playin an mp3 today i noticed that I was getting sound out of all my speakers includeing my sub. So how do i adject the channels as turning up certain speakers or tuning the sub?

Yet another simple sound question....

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Murphy
I had thought that my Sound Blaster Audigy driver (emu10k1) only supported 2 channels (or 2 speakers) however upon playin an mp3 today i noticed that I was getting sound out of all my speakers includeing my sub. So how do i adject the channels as turning up certain speakers or tuning the sub?

Re: Quick sound question

2005-08-19 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 8/19/05, Eric Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all Im trying to install OSS to get 5.1 sound working -- I keep getting > THIS error: > > > (I get a similar error when trying to run glxgears as well) > > > > greed# ./oss-install > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libncurses.so.5"

Quick sound question

2005-08-19 Thread Eric Murphy
Hey all Im trying to install OSS to get 5.1 sound working -- I keep getting THIS error: (I get a similar error when trying to run glxgears as well) greed# ./oss-install /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libncurses.so.5" not found, required by "oss-install" So what packages am i missing?

Re: Another sound question.

2004-10-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
Björn Lindström wrote: Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yea kind, The sound card still has to convert the pcm data from the CD into music and output it to the speakers though, No, the CD-ROM does that and sends it to the sound card as a plain old analog audio signal, so the only

Re: Another sound question.

2004-10-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
Björn Lindström wrote: Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: now put a music cd into your cd player and type in (as root) "cdcontrol play" if you hear something that sounds like music your good to go Actually, that's a pretty bad test, since that will use your CD-ROM for the sound, ra

Re: Another sound question.

2004-10-20 Thread Björn Lindström
Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now put a music cd into your cd player and type in (as root) > "cdcontrol play" if you hear something that sounds like music your > good to go Actually, that's a pretty bad test, since that will use your CD-ROM for the sound, rather than the DSP of yo

Re: Another sound question.

2004-10-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
Thomas Moyer wrote: I've read the handbook and searched through /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES and found the list of snd_* drivers. I'm just not sure which one I should use. I have an Asus P4P800E-Deluxe. The website says the onboard audio is ALC850 CODEC which is AC' 97 compatible. Does anyone kn

Another sound question.

2004-10-20 Thread Thomas Moyer
I've read the handbook and searched through /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES and found the list of snd_* drivers. I'm just not sure which one I should use. I have an Asus P4P800E-Deluxe. The website says the onboard audio is ALC850 CODEC which is AC' 97 compatible. Does anyone know which snd_* drive

Re: sound question

2003-11-13 Thread Cordula's Web
> > > > play: /dev/dsp: Device busy > > > Perhaps esd is running and grabbing the sound device? > > 80418 ?? Ss 2:56.38 esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd > > so if I kill -9 the esd process, icq will start emitting sounds ? > unfortunately no, it will just "mute" my xmms session 1. Who

Re: sound question

2003-11-13 Thread Petre Bandac
unfortunately no, it will just "mute" my xmms session any other solutions ? petre On Thursday 13 November 2003 21:11 Anno Domini, Petre Bandac wrote using one of his keyboards: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps -ax | grep esd > ~ > 80418 ?? Ss 2:56.38 esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 5 > 84843

Re: sound question

2003-11-13 Thread Petre Bandac
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ps -ax | grep esd ~ 80418 ?? Ss 2:56.38 esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 5 84843 p5 S+ 0:00.01 egrep esd so if I kill -9 the esd process, icq will start emitting sounds ? petre On Thursday 13 November 2003 21:0

Re: sound question

2003-11-13 Thread Cordula's Web
> play: /dev/dsp: Device busy Perhaps esd is running and grabbing the sound device? I have a similar problem with mpg123. Calling mpg123 multiple times (e.g. in a loop with a shell script) until it works is an acceptable work-around for me: #!/bin/sh until (mpg123 "$1") do sleep 1; done Of

sound question

2003-11-13 Thread Petre Bandac
hello I have a problem I somehow fixed once, but I can't remember how :-) sim-icq gives me the following message play: /dev/dsp: Device busy (it uses the play command for the sound plugin) it means that somehow the sound channel is used by other program (I have xmms running, and also enlight