Silence wanted (Silly newbie question)
Doug Way
dway at riskmetrics.com
Fri Dec 7 20:19:01 UTC 2001
So I take it that other (non-Squeak) Linux applications also generally crash when trying to play sounds with a typical (non-NAS) sound driver setup? (or whatever setup causes Squeak to crash) Or is this just a Squeak thing?
I'm just wondering if there's any way that Squeak could at least fail silently rather than crash in this situation. It seems a bit ridiculous that it's this easy for a newbie to crash Squeak on Linux.
- Doug Way
dway at riskmetrics.com
Lex Spoon wrote:
>
> This is a stupid part of most Linux sound drivers -- only one program
> can connect at a time. Worse, some sound cards *block* when you try to
> open them a second time. I'd love to know how to tell the open to just
> give up, if there is another process using it.... but not all sound
> drivers allow this.
>
> Anyway, you can solve this problem by using the Network Audio System
> (NAS). Does SuSe have a package for this? The way it works is that a
> "sound server" is the only guy talking directly to the sound device;
> other apps talk to the saund server. Squeak has patches for NAS on my
> Squeak site:
>
> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~lex/squeak
>
> To deal with other programs that don't support NAS, you can use
> "audiooss" -- if SuSe doesn't have it, you can do a web search for it.
> (Probably only Debian has this in it....)
>
> -Lex
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