Re: [CSCMail-Users] Re: Sound Problems

[Psy <ps...@on...>]

[a bit off topic]
About the XMMS problem, it's really not CSCmail's fault, it happens to me with
any program wich uses wav sounds . (Try for example using gnome with sounds and
while playing xmms try using anything that would cause a sound and voi'la, your
system hangs, and you have to start killing processes :)
I'm still looking for answers too, most probably it's esd fault.

On 17 Oct 2000 11:28:18 PDT, Ben Burnett said:

> Hey Ya'll,
> 
>	I was poking around in cscget this morning trying to figure out
> what my sound problems were.	And I made a few adjustments to the script.
>  I found that the sound was being played before any duplicate checking
> was happening, so I switched things around a little.	Now it only plays
> the sound if there are NEW messages on the server as opposed to ANY
> messages.  Below is the diff after the changes I made.	I hope it's
> useful to you.	I'm still working on the XMMS conflict. Cscget still
> hangs if I'm playing any wav audio but it does it at the end of the
> process rather than interrupting the mail retrieval.	I think this
> problem has to do with linux or esd or my sound card or... 
> 
> Later,
> 
> Ben
> 
> Running CSCMail 1.6.1
> 
> [ben@va01l]$ diff /usr/bin/cscget.orig /usr/bin/cscget
> 116a117,119
> > # init a variable for counting any NEW messages
> > my $new_mail_count = 0;
> > 
> 173c176,178
> <			if ($prefs{'PlaySound'} eq "y") {
> system("$prefs{'SndCmd'} $prefs{'SndFl'}"); }
> ---
> >						
> >			# if ($prefs{'PlaySound'} eq "y") {
> system("$prefs{'SndCmd'} $prefs{'SndFl'}"); }
> >			
> 219a225,228
> >					
> >					# I am not using a physical mail
> spool for any of my accounts so I haven't tested
> >					# this part yet but I think this
> is where it should go.
> >					$new_mail_count ++;
> 229c238
> <			}
> ---
> >			}			
> 274c283
> <		if ($prefs{'PlaySound'} eq "y") {
> system("$prefs{'SndCmd'} $prefs{'SndFl'}"); }
> ---
> >		# if ($prefs{'PlaySound'} eq "y") {
> system("$prefs{'SndCmd'} $prefs{'SndFl'}"); }
> 315c324
> <						}	
> ---
> >						}
> 346a356,360
> >					
> >					# I had some problems so I used
> the following line for testing
> >					# print STDOUT "counting mail as
> no dupe (pop3)\n";
> >					$new_mail_count ++;
> >				
> 390c404
> <				      }# end getmessage
> ---
> >				      }# end getmessage 		 
>	
> 406c420,425
> < 
> ---
> > # if we have new mail let's play a sound. system call return value
> check taken from perl cookbook p230 quick and dirty version
> > if ($prefs{'PlaySound'} eq "y" && $new_mail_count > 0)
> > {
> >	my $rc = 0xffff & system("$prefs{'SndCmd'} $prefs{'SndFl'}");
> >	warn "bad return code ($rc) from PlaySound system call: $!\n"
> unless ($rc == 0);
> > }
> 
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