Re: MIDI (and audio) on freeBSD

2004-05-03 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
> Thanks a lot for answering my question. I tried to instruct KDE to look
> for some other devices (audio0.0? dsp0.0, 0.1,0.2? There is a lot...).
> Nothing happened as you have foreseen.
> The weird thing is that it seems that GNOME sounds: it starts playing
> some chords, and sounds are associated with some events (clicks, open
> windows etc.)

With KDE, do you get any error message boxes from artsmessage during the 
"Initializing peripherals" step on the splash screen, or does it just fail 
quietly? Also, what happens if you try to run artsd from a shell?

Yours sincerely,
 -Jan Christian

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Re: MIDI (and audio) on freeBSD

2004-04-23 Thread Jan Christian Meyer
> After some troubles, and a Kernel recompilation with the option "device
> pcm", I found in /dev directory lots of devices related to sound. KDE
> still does not sound at all: it looks for a /dev/dsp device that does
> not exists; a /dev/dsp0.0 exists instead, but I haven't found the way to
> instruct KDE to load the right device.

Even if /dev/dsp does not appear when you list the contents of /dev, under 
FBSD 5.X it should still magically appear when something tries to access it, 
if I've understood correctly. That is how my 5.1-machines behave anyway. With 
this in mind, something is apparently fishy in your sound system - without 
being wizardly enough to say what is up, I would not bet on it working out 
even if you reconfigure the device.

If you still want to try, though, you can point the KDE sound system (aRts) to 
a specific device by enabling the "Use custom sound device" setting in the 
KDE control center. It can be found under the "Sound I/O" tab in 
Sound & Multimedia -> Sound System.

Good luck,
 -Jan Christian

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