[H-GEN] newbie help

[Craig Eldershaw]

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>> fuser "/dev/dsp" to check what's writing to the audio devices.  unless
>> you've got an SBLive which supports multiple writes, you can only have
>> one process at a time opening the audio devices.
>
>fuser didn't seem to report anything, but I guess I'm a pillock and one
>needs to run it while trying to play something?  

No, what Joel was suggesting was that something else is tying up your
soundcard so your sound effects can't get through.  But if fuser returnd
nothing, then that shows that nothing else is using it at the moment.
Which is good.

>*** the "one process" thing - the sound info tab reports -

This looks like they've just taken the output of sndstat (see my
previous post).  Can you give us the full raw output ?

>ls /dev reveals no such 'file' as sound.
>Permissions for /dev/audio:  crw-rw----

And ownership is root/root ?  This is probably your problem then.  Try
(as root) 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and probably the same for /dev/dsp.

C.

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