Alexander Lazarevic wrote:
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I guess if you are using a fresh image sound should be turned on by default. (see the attachment where you can check that)
I checked that and, yes, it is turned on by default.
Maybe you want to check on some other things. Is your OSS support really working? Your other sound applications might use some kind of sound daemon, like ESD (Enlightened Sound Daemon) with Gnome and I think KDE has a sound daemon too. You can check OSS support for example by playing a wav sound file with bplay instead of aplay in a shell. If OSS support is working and you are using a sound daemon, than try to disable that daemon before starting squeak. With ESD you just have to issue a killall esd or you can use a nifty little tool like the sound monitor applet to place ESD in standby mode. I don't know how it works for KDE, but there should be some description how to deal with that.
Thank you very much for your help, Alex. Just as you suspected, the following processes were running.
553 ? SW 0:00 [kaudioserver] 567 ? S 0:00 kwmsound
I killed them and tried to find the bplay program you mentioned, but without success. At http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Multimedia/Audio_tools.html I found "bufplay" described as "a command-line large-scale-buffering OSS audio". I suppose I'll try that.
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Squeak just uses the /dev/dsp device, there's nothing to configure.
I'm not even sure what are the most basic sound classes to start playing with just to make sure sound is working
It's class SoundPlayer. "SoundPlayer boinkScale" should always work because it directly uses the primitives.
-- Bert
Thanks Bert. I tried that and still get the error: mmap: Input/output error soundcard format = 32
I'll try now to make sure OSS is working with apps that get no help from other sound daemons, as Alex suggested.
thanks again, william.