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I have SuSE 9.1 and have d/l'ed a program (TuxNES) that I want to use, and it has to interphase directly with the sound hardware. How do I get it to do so? Do I point it to /dev/dsp? (more importantly--)What device is it that handles sound in SuSE? I can get TuxNES to interpahse with the sound card as soon as I know for sure what device it is?
/dev/dsp won't initialize, what else can I try? Sound works fine under KDE (with aRTs, ALSA, OSS, TSS, etc. running). Is ALSA, aRTs, OSS, or TSS grabbing it up so that TuxNES can't use it, though none are actually doing anything with it at the moment?
That was it. Now that I got the sound working, I can go on to bigger and badder things, like making TuxNES handle my joystick the way I want, and making it stop sounding wierd (both are TuxNES specific details).
Also, how would I go about getting a direct-sound program, such as TuxNES, to go through aRTs, can I? (I doubt it)
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