On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Mick wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] What's the dmix equivalent these days?': > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 06:54, Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 00:14, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > > > El Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:53:54 +0100 > > > Alex Schuster escribió: > > > > Mick writes: > > > > > How am I supposed to specify sox? /usr/bin/sox doesn't play any > > > > > sound. > > > > > > > > Have a look at this "Do I really need aRts?" thread. > > > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-526080-highlight-arts.html > > > > > > Alternatively you can just use the script "/usr/bin/play", included > > > in the sox package. > > > > Cool! I seem to have missed this in man sox. It plays system sounds > > now nicely. > > Blast! I spoke too soon. It /usr/bin/play plays system sounds fine, by > alsa will not mix them. Do you have an alsa configuration file (e.g. /etc/asoundrc)? I used dmix a while back, and when it changed to being the default, my asoundrc broke playback. You might try deleting (or at least removing any dmix/dsnoop entries from) that file. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW!