[LAU] CALL FOR MUSICIANS / Beast 0.7.6 release

[Florian Paul Schmidt]

On 10/25/2012 01:54 PM, Tim Janik wrote:
> On 25.10.2012 11:31, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:
>> On 10/25/2012 04:38 AM, Tim Janik wrote:
>>> CALL FOR MUSICIANS
>>> ==================
>>> If you are a musician and interested in Free Software, the Beast project
>>> needs your input. You can contribute with testing, feature feedback,
>>> demos and tutorials. Please see our website: http://beast.testbit.eu/
>>>
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just downloaded and built beast 0.7.6. There was one hickup during
>> the build: configure didn't test for libcloog-ppl0. After that it
>> built fine. I installed it, fired it up, loaded an example song and
>> hit play.. It seems to run, but there's no sound coming out of the
>> system. I looked through the preferences if there's a way to configure
>> the output device, but I must have missed it.
>>
>> I guess I could try reading the manual, but thought that maybe you
>> also care about the first impression :D
> Thanks, Beast generally uses the ALSA drivers. If you have another
> program using/blocking your alsa sound devices (e.g. pulseaudio), or the
> respective channels are muted (e.g. for soundcards that have multiple
> channels), then beast and other alsa programs cannot play music.

AH OK, so it's not using the ALSA PCM device called "default"  by default :D

Flo

>> Have fun,
>> Flo
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