[H-GEN] newbie help

Sarah Hollings sez at powerup.com.au
Fri Mar 31 19:18:36 EST 2000


Craig Eldershaw wrote:
[snippage] 
> 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 ?

Attached as a text file, as redirected from command line.

> 
> >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.

Craig, thanks heaps - this seems to have fixed like 95% of my problems. 
Funny that.  kde is now talking to the audio server and playing lovely
sounds.  Mostly.

However:

*some* wav files are coming over as white noise.  I'm wildly guessing
that the ones that sound OK are 8bit?  And maybe there's something wrong
with the setup so 16bit ones aren't working?

If you look at tha attached file, there's sort of *two* numbers where
the DMA should be?  A 1,0 or something that looks a mite dodgy.

> 
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Build: 2.2.12-SMP

Card config: 
Generic PnP support
Avance Logic ALS1xx at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,0
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388
SB MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 5

Audio devices:
0: Avance Logic (4.2) (DUPLEX)
1: SB secondary device (DUPLEX)

Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL-3

Midi devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16

Timers:
0: System clock

Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster


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