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[coLinux-users] Problems with ESD - "Cannot initialize Device"?

[Peter L. <pe...@td...>]

Hi everyone,
I have been trying to set up a sound server for quite some time now 
without any success.
In the Wiki (Sound support in CoLinux), I do exactly as told:
export ESPEAKER=192.168.0.2:16001
where the IP address is the Windows host name.
On the Windows side, I run the ESD port linked to from the wiki like 
this:
g:\esound\esd.exe -tcp -public
However, whenever I try to run a program created with a library such as 
FMOD, I always get the error: "Cannot initialize device". I am also not 
able to hear any sound - I wonder what may be wrong here?
Networking works (I can ping external hosts as well as my own machine) 
with no problems. The Esound also seems to be starting up the right way 
on the Windows machine (at least, I hear the sound that indicates this).
I use the Gentoo-image provided with 0.6.2.
Any suggestions are very much appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Peter.
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Re: [coLinux-users] Problems with ESD - "Cannot initialize Device"?

[Sam M. <pa...@gm...>]

I remember having similar issues when piping real to real (real linux
box to real windows box) where some applications will refuse to
actually accept the ESD settings unless you specificly tell them. I
ended up giving up and just using xmms and the esd play tool for all
that I needed, but you might be able to use ESD wrappers. All you
really need is something to redirect some stuff in /dev to where it
_really_ needs to go, because it looks like what ever you are using is
still trying to use either OSS or ALSA to generate sound. Also make
sure that you are using the esd version or libraries because some
things have different versions for OSS, ALSA, ARTS and ESD.

In any case, this is technically a general Linux usage question as
opposed to something coLinux specific, so there are probably better
places to ask this question as well.

Sam

On 7/23/05, Peter Laursen <pe...@td...> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I have been trying to set up a sound server for quite some time now
> without any success.
> In the Wiki (Sound support in CoLinux), I do exactly as told:
> export ESPEAKER=3D192.168.0.2:16001
> where the IP address is the Windows host name.
> On the Windows side, I run the ESD port linked to from the wiki like
> this:
> g:\esound\esd.exe -tcp -public
> However, whenever I try to run a program created with a library such as
> FMOD, I always get the error: "Cannot initialize device". I am also not
> able to hear any sound - I wonder what may be wrong here?
> Networking works (I can ping external hosts as well as my own machine)
> with no problems. The Esound also seems to be starting up the right way
> on the Windows machine (at least, I hear the sound that indicates this).
> I use the Gentoo-image provided with 0.6.2.
> Any suggestions are very much appreciated.
> Yours sincerely,
> Peter.
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