On Saturday 24 March 2007 19:13, Frank Cox wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:58:42 +0100 > > Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > would like to > > find a fix for the machine that has the Ensoniq card. > > What kind of a fix do you have in mind? If the soundcard is physically > incable of playing the audio that you want played, then I don 't see what > you can fix. > > You could check the status of /dev/dsp somehow and if it returns busy then > don't play the sound effect, I suppose, but that doesn't achieve the action > that you want, i.e. play a sound effect before starting some application. Well I can start Opera on the launcher as "aoss opera", then going to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 can listen to Internet radio, which uses the BBC's radioplayer, which is using Realplayer (an OSS app). I can if I want to, also run MhWaveedit, and play some .ogg music file, and listen to both at the same time. The problem I have is that "play", or "aplay" will not play the soundfile if another audio app is already running, but as I've said, I will ask on the Alsa-user list, as there may well be a fix. There's often some workaround, but if not that's just life I suppose. Nigel.
