Re: [gentoo-user] What's the dmix equivalent these days?

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Monday 26 February 2007 22:36, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Montag, 26. Februar 2007, Mick wrote:
> > On Monday 26 February 2007 22:02, b.n. wrote:
> > > Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
> > > > On Sunday 25 February 2007, Mick wrote:
> > > >> Hi All,
> > > >>
> > > >> It seems that when Amarok is playing, all system sounds are put on
> > > >> hold.  Once I close Amarok then all system (KDE) notifications
> > > >> suddenly sound at once!
> > > >>
> > > >> How do I figure out what's wrong and how should I fix it?
> > > >
> > > > One word:
> > > >
> > > > arts
> > > >
> > > > It's an abomination that should not be suffered to live. Disable it,
> > > > switch it off, consign it to hell for all eternity.
> > >
> > > You can also compile all of kde switching off the "alsa" use flag.
> >
> > Did you mean to say "arts"?  I thought that this was required to be able
> > to play KDE system notifications?
>
> no, arts is not required to be able to play the KDE notifications.
>
> > Since aplay is hard masked, what external player should I use?  What
> > other options are there to be able to play system notifications, if I
> > want to keep alsa?
>
> sox?

How am I supposed to specify sox?  /usr/bin/sox doesn't play any sound.  :(
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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