Sound systems (Was:) Re: software synth on old laptop

[Chris Norman]

Hi.

I am just thinking, which is better? OSS or ALSA?

Cheers,

Chris Norman
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: software synth on old laptop


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> Aplay is an alsa program, so it won't work with oss. You need to use
> play instead, if you're using oss.
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> Greg
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> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:25:00PM -0600, John Heim wrote:
>> Do I have to use alsa sound drivers to use speakup with espeak?
>>
>> I've installed alsa-utils and I've run alsaconf but there seems to be a
>> problem. I get error messages that it can't find device 0. I have this
>> really old laptop with a Sound Blaster 8 built in. I've loaded the 
>> correct
>> modues manually 'modprobe snd-sb8' but no matter what I do, I can't seem 
>> to
>> get sound at all via the alsa drivers.
>>
>> The oss drivers work fine.  But I can't get speech-dispatcher to work 
>> with
>> espeak. I saw that in the espeak config file, it calls aplay. And aplay
>> won't work possibly because I'm not using the alsa drivers. Am I on the
>> right track here?
>>
>>
>>
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