Re: [Sound] RH 7.2 + Intel 82801AA

[Mark Palatucci <markmp copera com>]

Actually, I was able to do this with:
artsdsp play somesound.wav

although I would guess there is a better way.

-mark


On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 03:51:02PM -0800, Mark Palatucci wrote:
> Thanks Alan. This seemed to work. But it will only work for the user
> that is currently logged into the local machine. When I try to run as
> root or some other remote user, I get "Can't connect to sound server".
> 
> Is there another program that can 1) place nice with a running kde 2)
> allow remote users to ssh into the box and play sounds on the local
> machine?
> 
> Thanks again,
> -Mark
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:28:32PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 21:58, Mark Palatucci wrote:
> > > >From a kde shell, if I do "play somesound.wav", I hear the sound and
> > > get the msg:
> > > sox: Sound card appears to only support singled word
> > > samples. Overriding format
> > > sox: Sound card appears to only support 2 channels.  Overriding format
> > 
> > The i810 hardware only supports certain audio formats. CPU is cheap
> > nowdays and silicon less so. 
> > 
> > > I'm not sure what causes this msg but that's not what I'm actually
> > > concerned with. If KDE makes any sound, like the beep I get after
> > > hitting backspace on an empty shell command line - then audio no
> > > longer works. If I do "play somesound.wav" after KDE beeps, then I
> > > don't hear anything and get the msg:
> > 
> > KDE has a sound server to share the audio stuff
> > 
> > > sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy
> > 
> > KDE grabbed the audio for a bit. It expects (as actually do all the
> > GUI desktop tools) that people will share the audio politely. Play
> > doesnt
> > 
> > Use "artsplay" and it'll play it through the polite helpers
> > 
> > Alan
> > 
> > 
> > 
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