Confused about sound servers

[Trey Sizemore]

T Kellers wrote:

>On Friday 02 January 2004 06:49 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote:
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>>Eric F Crist wrote:
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>>>On Friday 02 January 2004 02:06 pm, T Kellers wrote:
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>>>>Don't use both device pcm and the .ko modules.  The sound won't work at
>>>>all or, if it does, not properly.  You may not even have any keyboard
>>>>beeps (^G's) if both are loaded.
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>>>I find I only add the device pcm line to my kernel and everything works
>>>fine. Gnome, KDE, console beeps.  Everything works and I don't usually
>>>worry about the sound servers.  When you install one of the window
>>>managers, as long as you install the multimedia package, the correct
>>>sound server gets installed too.  This has been working for me for about
>>>5 years now.
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>>>HTH
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>>Update here...I have removed the entries in /boot/loader.conf and now
>>only have the kernel compiled with my 'device PCM' entry.
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>>'dmesg | grep pcm' shows my soundcard entry and cat /dev/sndstat shows
>>it as well.
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>>I have rebooted after taking the entries out of loader.conf.
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>>When I try something like
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>>% play KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav
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>>I get:
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>>play: /dev/dsp: Operation not supported by device
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>>What might be causing this that I could look into?
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>%play /usr/local/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav
>play: /dev/dsp: Operation not supported by device
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>I get that same message after I've shut down the arts server
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>However
>artsplay /usr/local/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav
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>works fine as long as artsd is running
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>%ps -ax | grep arts
>14333  p0  S      0:01.69 artsd
>14343  p0  R+     0:00.00 grep arts
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>If you have KDE installed, try:
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>%artsd &
>%artsplay /usr/local/share/sounds/KDE_Beep_Ahem.wav
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>You should hear Mr Ahem clear his throat right from the command line.
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>Tim 
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Tried that and I get the following:

Can't connect to sound server

:-(