Sound in KDE FC4

[david walcroft]

Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Saturday, Jul 16th 2005 at 11:46 +1000, quoth david walcroft:
> 
> =>Hi
> => I still seem to have problems in getting Alsa to work with KDE,OSS
> =>works ok but Alsa brings up an error that "device: default can't be opened for
> =>playback (Permission denied)" when starting in Sound System.
> =>
> =>I tried this "cat /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav > /dev/dsp"
> =>and returned distortion and screeching.
> =>
> =>Any ideas as to what is going on please
> =>
> =>  david
> 
> I'm on a system that works fine from an audio perspective and there are 
> some files that sound fine if I redirect them to /dev/dsp. The one you 
> chose is *not* one of them.
> 
> Here's one that does work:
> 
> 532 > file  /usr/games/chromium/data/wav/boom.wav
> /usr/games/chromium/data/wav/boom.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE 
> audio, Microsoft PCM, 8 bit, mono 11025 Hz
> 533 > 
> 
> And here's one that doesn't:
> 
> 531 > file  /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav
> /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, 
> Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 22050 Hz
> 
> The proper test should be to use the play program to handle whatever 
> conversions are needed.
> 
> Also, I'm not an expert on this subject, but my understanding is that .au 
> files are always the lowest common denominator file type and that 
> /dev/audio is always the lowest common denominator audio device. (If I'm 
> wrong, someone please correct^H^H^H^H^H^H^Heducate me.
> 
I tried a few different files and none worked,didn't have the file you 
mentioned

   david