From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HMNLC-00086B-V3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:51:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1SBoLnq017791; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:50:21 GMT Received: from opal.binro.org (p7575-adslbkksp7.C.csloxinfo.net [58.136.93.209]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1SBkAUM013087 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:46:12 GMT Received: from opal.binro.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by opal.binro.org (8.14.0/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1SBk8Z8016250 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:46:08 +0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by opal.binro.org (8.14.0/8.13.6/Submit) id l1SBk83H016247 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:46:08 +0700 X-Authentication-Warning: opal.binro.org: robin set sender to robin.atwood@attglobal.net using -f From: Robin Atwood To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the dmix equivalent these days? Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:46:08 +0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200702251805.55846.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200702270654.20914.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200702272006.51123.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200702272006.51123.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Face: %^&By>hi(KOc&{t+{2eOVV.-b$Y>k%N$%jZ$XHii2Gb/DTSwTA2l)=?utf-8?q?dX/JjS=3Fl/tbh=7EpMP8=0A=09=3Bmkk?=)r\5]?E^cE\A@&Spdk;'N7vU0cD;1^*#Ts5#)Y+a>/4yS@|HQ?NQ5aR9e<'zdO*<=?utf-8?q?=60w=0A=09!Z=7D=7C0=2348q7bTX=23YDj8hBL9q7lA?=>51-ZxZj4\yV50!6,"2|I.^qF<|cum-=?utf-8?q?w8f=60=3A/=0A=09N-=5Cc?=,wx~xhsh=A2]k3Ya3<5K?Dvukq_@'.=Bo(nNEENu&'8Y[T<=?utf-8?q?=60=7D=26fE=23+L*RNqI=5E!9-W=7E=0A=09=23QRe=3BRf=7BEJ?=GoJ;v^n**!HN)b)Ozu{4~ Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702281846.08214.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l1SBoLo6017791 X-Archives-Salt: c5fb869a-21b1-4d52-8265-02a37162a53f X-Archives-Hash: 121c570e64552befaf94fef1fa5b7994 On Wednesday 28 Feb 2007, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 06:54, Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 00:14, Jes=FAs Guerrero wrote: > > > El Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:53:54 +0100 > > > > > > Alex Schuster escribi=F3: > > > > Mick writes: > > > > > How am I supposed to specify sox? /usr/bin/sox doesn't play an= y > > > > > sound. > > > > > > > > Have a look at this "Do I really need aRts?" thread, in the middl= e it > > > > says: > > > > > > > > "now, copy this script into /usr/bin/Ksplay: > > > > > > > > #! /bin/sh > > > > sox "$@" -v 1.0 -q -t alsa default & > > > > > > > > emerge sox to get an external sound player for > > > > kdm events. Go into the control center, click > > > > system notifications and click "player settings" > > > > near the bottom. Click "use external player" > > > > and then type /usr/bin/Ksplay. > > > > " > > > > > > > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-526080-highlight-arts.html > > > > > > > > Alex > > > > > > 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 if e.g. amarok is playing in the background. It= 's > either one or the other. Do I need to rebuild kdelibs without arts for= it > to work? This should really be simpler. i recently went through this after something broke in arts. I turned off = the=20 KDE sound system and in the System Notifications dialog,=20 specified "playsound" as the external player (found in sdl-sound package)= .=20 You can also use "mplayer" but the module is enormous. Everything works=20 really well now, with no drop-outs during the KDE Start/Stop fan-fares. := ) HTH -Robin. --=20 ------------------------------------------------------ Robin Atwood ------------------------------------------------------ --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list