-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-03-28 at 09:27 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Wed March 28 2007 08:42, Carlos E. R. wrote: <snip lots of interesting background info>
Ok, I have amarok playing (in gnome). I try to use festival, it fails (normal in my system). I pause the play, festival works. This is how it always did.
Always?
Well, always in my system :-)
I would look at all the documentation you can locate covering your sound hardware and driver/module. I have a 'cheap' all-in-one mainboard and it can mix sounds received simultaneously from multiple applications without doing so in serial fashion. Somehow I don't think this is unusual, even for Linux, in 2007?
Mmmm... I can mix sounds coming from several analog sources; say, from the dvd, the tv card, the microphone, etc. However, the dsp... the dsp is a procesor (digital signal procesor), and my motherboard has only one. It is used, somehow, to convert waveforms in some digital format to the analog sound that is mixed and finally sent to the loudspeakers. As far as I know, you need several DSPs to be able to hear digital sounds comming from several sources. My machine is from about 2001, and wasn't state of the art then, so I wouldn't be surprised that other computers have better capabilities. There is some info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_card http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC97
But sometimes, something somewhere gets stuck, and festival doesn't work. It is usually festival, because I have a cron job with it to tell me the time every half hour...
Now I *know* I am corresponding with a proper geek! :-)
I guess I must be a bit O:-)
This must have something to do with Spanish culture... I received a test Ekiga call yesterday from a girl running Ubuntu in Spain. She said "I hate Windows" and "Linux saved my life!" (Don't get your hopes up: I have a cat who is older than she is and she has a boyfriend who is a systems administrator!)
X''-)
The funny thing is that lsof doesn't list /dev/dsp as being in use (but amarok is using it, it is playing). How then can I know who/what has sound in use?
I haven't a clue, Carolos. lsof shows /dev/dsp in use here when sound is active. I still suspect this is an integration issue.
Interesting... funny it shows on your system and not in mine. I'll have to investigate again next time it happens, I guess. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGDBoitTMYHG2NR9URAgcLAJ9g3dyewhoD17KpYr5UJe2+CvsxrwCfdLs3 r1+01Ce6v54tuBFlYlGD2+s= =FDXP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org