DSP-device fsk'd up ;-(

i don't think it's really a problem with arts because if it was then i'd think it would also cause problems with ur other sounds (like playing wav files or oggs/mp3s)

i have no idea what the problem could be :/

[Schotty]

not that I have really run into this, but what happens when you use a different DE? like gnome or windowmaker, or twm for the matter? Can you run xmms or whatever and play tunes correctly? I see you are having a REALLY fun time getting this one. And I figure anythnig is worth trying, in hopes of getting a result one way or the other.

BTW, I tend to lean towards Ralinx's idea about artsd -- that being borked would cause more hell, and slightly different hell than what you already have. I am just curious as to what else may be affected, in hopes that pushes us to success.

[Pantheus]

Schotty gets the gold ring WooHoo

using gmix and gnome's cd player I get sounds!!!! tunes from the CD

btw, kscd doesn't even use arts

when i kill all instances of arts, and i play an ogg with noatun it automatically starts artsd first. but when i run kscd to play a cd it doesn't start artsd if it's not active yet.

in fact, if i turn off artsd, then run xmms without letting it use arts to play an ogg (so it's using /dev/dsp directly without any sound server controlling it) and then at the same time firing up kscd to play a cd i hear both the cd and the ogg. this would be impossible if kscd was using /dev/dsp because xmms is already accessing /dev/dsp and only one process at a time can access it.

so long story short, kscd doesn't use arts

[quote author=Pantheus link=board=1;threadid=4833;start=0#48243 date=1031103135]
Schotty gets the gold ring WooHoo

using gmix and gnome's cd player I get sounds!!!! tunes from the CD
[/quote]

in that case it must be some sort of volume setting that still wasn't set right in kmix

[Pantheus]

After tweaks, and whatever, I have found a way to play:
.mp3
.ogg
.wav
CDs

but the one last part I can't get is .mid when that attempts I get an error message that says " Cannot open /dev/sequencer - It must be in use with another program"

 [ken@localhost ken]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost root]# ls -l /dev/sequencer
crw-------    1 ken      ken       14,   1 Aug 30  2001 /dev/sequencer
[root@localhost root]#

While this project is nearly done.... (until an upgrade :-[ ) any clues about the last piece of the puzzle?

I can't say enough about the superb help here...You guys and gals are truly amazing and greatly appreciated! THANKS!

Ken

[pbharris]

howdy,
waht app are you using to play the midi?

here is how i play a midi

[pbharris@bugs ~]timidity /mp3s/two/thegoodb.mid

[Pantheus]

This time Paul gets the golden ring thanks! that did it.... WOW!

[pbharris]

excellent!