Re: RH 7.2 + Intel 82801AA

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 21:58, Mark Palatucci wrote:
> >From a kde shell, if I do "play somesound.wav", I hear the sound and
> get the msg:
> sox: Sound card appears to only support singled word
> samples. Overriding format
> sox: Sound card appears to only support 2 channels.  Overriding format

The i810 hardware only supports certain audio formats. CPU is cheap
nowdays and silicon less so. 

> I'm not sure what causes this msg but that's not what I'm actually
> concerned with. If KDE makes any sound, like the beep I get after
> hitting backspace on an empty shell command line - then audio no
> longer works. If I do "play somesound.wav" after KDE beeps, then I
> don't hear anything and get the msg:

KDE has a sound server to share the audio stuff

> sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy

KDE grabbed the audio for a bit. It expects (as actually do all the
GUI desktop tools) that people will share the audio politely. Play
doesnt

Use "artsplay" and it'll play it through the polite helpers

Alan