Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Soundless ALSA Newbie
From: Sakari Aaltonen (sakari_AT_aplac.hut.fi)
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 18:04:08 EET
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
>
> Click on the link for your card.
I did, but there is not much there. Perhaps I should read the
sources?
> xine will still work with oss emulation. What are the permissions for
> /dev/dsp?
>
> Try chmod a+rw /dev/dsp
Yes, xine seems to work for others; it doesn't for me. The /dev/dsp*
permissions are (and were) crw-rw-rw-.
> There is a timidity howto available through http://www.djcj.org and some
> example soundfonts with the correct timidity config setup.
Thanks for the pointer - I downloaded TiMidity++-2.10.4.tar.bz2.
Unfortunately, the patch recommended, timidity-2.10.4-alsa9-pl1.dif,
seems to be HTML, and 'patch' rejects it.
Sakari Aaltonen
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