Re: [Hampshire] Gramofile

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Author: Sean Gibbins
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Gramofile
Tony Whitmore wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008 15:21:48 +0100, Sean Gibbins <sean@???>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just wondering if there are any gramofile users out there and if they
>> have encountered and overcome the error '/dev/dsp: Invalid argument'
>> that I get on all of the boxes I have tried it on?
>>
>> All of the research I have done to date suggests that something else is
>> using it, but I failed to find out what.
>>
>
> If you're running Hardy, it's probably Pulseaudio. If the program isn't
> capable of playing nicely with Pulseaudio, try "killall pulseaudio" then
> running Gramofile again. It will probably work, but you might have killed
> audio for other applications until you next login. :)
>


Thanks Tony but that didn't work. I tried Hugo's selection to see what
is hogging the device too, but that didn't report anything back either.

I've exhausted the various settings available for sound and I am stumped
now.

> Really, you should check the bug reports and pester the gramofile devs to
> make it play nicely.


Will do.

Sean