-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Kerry, Thanks. My alsa is 0.1.14RC3, and dmix is running. I can play multiple alsa apps simultaneously, and I can play one oss application along with an alsa application, but I can only run one oss application at a time. My sound subsystem is the onboard system with the Intel D945 motherboard, and the alsa driver is pretty primitive for it, the snd-hda-intel. It lacks a lot of controls I am used to. Chuck On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:34:14PM +0800, Kerry Hoath wrote: > It depends on what soundcard you have and whether or not the soundcard is > using dmix. > > dmix is the plugin for alsa that mixes output streams together, > and it is part of the alsa-lib package I think or the plugins package I > can't remember which one to be honest. > > It depends on which soundcard you are using as to how many hardware output > channels you have; however dmix is supposed to mix in software to overcome > this problem. > > Make sure your libs, utils and driver are all 1.14rc something or later > because they changed the way they handled the plugins in 1.0.13 or later I > seem to recall. > > None of this may help; and I haven't tried to use alsa with speech > dispatcher. > the killer will be to test if 2 oss applications can run at the same time > with alsa; > is it a multiple open problem on /dev/dsp or is it specific to speech > dispatcher? > Shouldn't speech dispatcher be using alsa directly and if so; should this > not free up /dev/dsp if dmix is in use? > > We need to acertain if this is speech dispatcher's fault or simply a funny > with alsa and its plugins even if it did work before. > > No idea if any of the above helps; i've had a long day at work and i'm just > thinking at my keyboard. > > Regards, Kerry. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at ftml.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 7:35 PM > Subject: Re: speech-dispatcher 0.6.4 issue > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Jan and Willem, thanks for your suggestions. > > > > And Jan, thanks for helping fix the speechd mailing list issue. > > > > The aoss solution does not work for me. At least not completely. The > > test Willem made using the play command was not conclusive, since as I > > think I reported earlier, the play command continues to work when other > > oss applications, such as swift, madplay, and flite, all fail. > > > > I used aoss followed by examples of swift, madplay, and flite, with and > > without speech-dispatcher running. Here is what I find: > > > > 1. madplay works as well with or without speech-dispatcher, so that > > seems to solve the issue for that application. > > > > 2. swift and flite sound unacceptably distorted when used with aoss, > > with or without speech-dispatcher running. So while aoss seems to solve > > the speech-dispatcher issue, it cannot be used due to this serious > > distortion. > > > > 3. Play works with or without aoss, with or without speech-dispatcher, > > and so is not a helpful application with which to test the problem. > > > > Finally, I have found that if I add only one module to > > speech-dispatcher, the espeak-generic module, all my applications work > > correctly and none of them require aoss. > > > > This behavior is new behavior for recent upgrades of speech-dispatcher > > on my system, but at the same time I have made so many other upgrades > > that I cannot say for sure where the problem lies. However, I do now > > have a solution: avoid adding the flite or festival modules when > > running speech-dispatcher. > > > > Chuck > > > > - -- > > The Moon is Waning Crescent (35% of Full) > > My new web site location is at: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net > > College, that fountain of knowledge, where everyone goes to drink. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFG3pSJ0maTgpPXM9cRAvoeAJ9JNieFIrvHB++SyY9ykfuhG3S1IACeK5dB > > 5+3jbqg7nJmMio6G2gq1emY= > > =tECH > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (34% of Full) My new web site location is at: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net College, that fountain of knowledge, where everyone goes to drink. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG3qYD0maTgpPXM9cRAjX6AKCHQD4hAT3voFbB3bGXf5uxFuE/9ACfRFH4 sGXm5p9a3DNqNcn/cAHLlnU= =VbZG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
