I started up jackd and got hydrogen to work. thanks. dave On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 01:23, Christian Henz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:47:30PM -0500, David Evans wrote: > > > > I'm getting this error when trying to start hydrogen: > > > > [ERROR] OssDriver ERROR_IOCTL: unable to set BlockSize > > [ERROR] Hydrogen Error starting audio driver > > > > then the gui comes up with a messageBox "error starting audio driver". > > > > any thoughts? > > > > I'd guess BlockSize parameter sets the size of the buffer. You can change > that in the Preferences dialog. Maybe the error message is misleading and > the audio device is blocked by some other sound application (KDE's artsd?) > You could check out XMMS's settings (click on the little 'O' for the menu), > see what output it uses. My guess is it uses arts or ALSA, see if it works > with OSS. If it uses arts, you'd probably have to stop artsd. (You can disable > it in KDE control center.) > > Eventually you wanna give jack a try. As mentioned before qjackctl is the way > to go. It can also stop artsd automatically. > > cheers, > Christian
