Re: [LUG] Sound Problem

[Simon Robert <simon-robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Melhuish wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 March 2005 08:40, aaron Moore wrote:
>  
>
> > I am having trouble with some of my sound apps.  I can play CDs MP3 with
> > Alsaplayer and others, but when I try Rosegarden Audacity Ardour, or
> > Notedit I get the error message-
> >
> > 'Directaccess to sound device not possible.
> > No soundcard available os sound support not configured yet. However the
> > application uses or requires sound support'
> >    
>
> Erm, just a guess, but maybe AlsaPlayer, etc. are using the ALSA sound system, 
> whereas Rosegarden etc. are trying to access the sound card directly?  They 
> won't be able to do that, because ALSA is using it (and only one program can 
> access the soundcard directly at any one time).
>
> If that is the problem, I can think of three possible solutions.  The most 
> elegant would be to get Rosegarden etc. to use ALSA (they might have an 
> output plugin or option somewhere).  The less elegant option would be to stop 
> ALSA from running.  KDE has a control panel section for it, or type 
> "/etc/init.d/alsa stop" into a command line.  A slightly nicer bodge is to 
> set ALSA to give up control of the soundcard after a certain period of 
> inactivity.
>
> The third option is to use the artsdsp 'wrapper' (eg. type "artsdsp 
> rosegarden").  This fools the program into thinking it's accessing the sound 
> card directly, but actually it's talking to the sound system.  I've never had 
> much luck with this, it always seems to make XMMS crash, but your milage may 
> vary.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon
>
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The usual advice on this stuff is that there is no output cable 
connecting the cd drive to the sound card as most PC manufacturers don't 
bother. I had a similar problem with xine playing CDs, but kcd not 
(though it recognised one was loaded). Dunno just a guess...

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