Sound in KDE FC4
david walcroft
david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au
Sat Jul 16 03:06:57 UTC 2005
Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Saturday, Jul 16th 2005 at 11:46 +1000, quoth david walcroft:
>
> =>Hi
> => I still seem to have problems in getting Alsa to work with KDE,OSS
> =>works ok but Alsa brings up an error that "device: default can't be opened for
> =>playback (Permission denied)" when starting in Sound System.
> =>
> =>I tried this "cat /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav > /dev/dsp"
> =>and returned distortion and screeching.
> =>
> =>Any ideas as to what is going on please
> =>
> => david
>
> I'm on a system that works fine from an audio perspective and there are
> some files that sound fine if I redirect them to /dev/dsp. The one you
> chose is *not* one of them.
>
> Here's one that does work:
>
> 532 > file /usr/games/chromium/data/wav/boom.wav
> /usr/games/chromium/data/wav/boom.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE
> audio, Microsoft PCM, 8 bit, mono 11025 Hz
> 533 >
>
> And here's one that doesn't:
>
> 531 > file /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav
> /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio,
> Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 22050 Hz
>
> The proper test should be to use the play program to handle whatever
> conversions are needed.
>
> Also, I'm not an expert on this subject, but my understanding is that .au
> files are always the lowest common denominator file type and that
> /dev/audio is always the lowest common denominator audio device. (If I'm
> wrong, someone please correct^H^H^H^H^H^H^Heducate me.
>
I tried a few different files and none worked,didn't have the file you
mentioned
david
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