Confused about sound servers

[Trey Sizemore]

T Kellers wrote:

>On Friday 02 January 2004 08:32 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote:
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>>T Kellers wrote:
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>>>On Friday 02 January 2004 06:49 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote:
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>>>>Eric F Crist wrote:
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>>>>>On Friday 02 January 2004 02:06 pm, T Kellers wrote:
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>>>>>>Don't use both device pcm and the .ko modules.  The sound won't work at
>>>>>>all or, if it does, not properly.  You may not even have any keyboard
>>>>>>beeps (^G's) if both are loaded.
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>>>>>I find I only add the device pcm line to my kernel and everything works
>>>>>fine. Gnome, KDE, console beeps.  Everything works and I don't usually
>>>>>worry about the sound servers.  When you install one of the window
>>>>>managers, as long as you install the multimedia package, the correct
>>>>>sound server gets installed too.  This has been working for me for about
>>>>>5 years now.
>>>>>
>>>>>HTH
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Update here...I have removed the entries in /boot/loader.conf and now
>>>>only have the kernel compiled with my 'device PCM' entry.
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>>>>'dmesg | grep pcm' shows my soundcard entry and cat /dev/sndstat shows
>>>>it as well.
>>>>
>>>>I have rebooted after taking the entries out of loader.conf.
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>>>>When I try something like
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>>>>% play KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav
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>>>>I get:
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>>>>play: /dev/dsp: Operation not supported by device
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>>>>What might be causing this that I could look into?
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>>>%play /usr/local/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav
>>>play: /dev/dsp: Operation not supported by device
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>>>I get that same message after I've shut down the arts server
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>>>However
>>>artsplay /usr/local/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav
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>>>works fine as long as artsd is running
>>>
>>>%ps -ax | grep arts
>>>14333  p0  S      0:01.69 artsd
>>>14343  p0  R+     0:00.00 grep arts
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>>>If you have KDE installed, try:
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>>>%artsd &
>>>%artsplay /usr/local/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav
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>>>You should hear Mr Ahem clear his throat right from the command line.
>>>
>>>Tim
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>>Tried that and I get the following:
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>>Can't connect to sound server
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>Please try:
>ps -ax | grep arts
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>and see if artsd is running
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>If you start it manually you need to run artsd & before you type the test file 
>entry.
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>Tim Kellers
>CPE/NJIT
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Yes, it's running.  When I run the command from the command line now, it 
jumps right to the next line waiting for further input.  It's as if it 
played it as requested but I hear nothing.  My volume is up on the 
speakers, mixer levels are good...just no sound. :-(

No console beeps either.

This is in KDE.