Ubuntu
siggen package

siggen not working out of the box

Bug #865373 reported by Pander
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siggen (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The applications in the siggen package will only work if they are run via aoss . Otherwise the application will exit with the following error:
  No such file or directory : /dev/dsp
Perhaps the package should take care and install proper shell scripts that run it with aoss

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in siggen (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Serged (serge-delbono) wrote :

Pending the resolution of this bug, you can use the command "play-n synth".

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kede (kede) wrote :

play -n works fine for generating tones, but it is not interactive so I can't adjust the frequency on the fly.

The keyword aoss mentioned above lead to the following workaround:
> sudo aptitude install alsa-oss
> aoss siggen

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Henning Sprang (henning) wrote :

Thanks @kede for this workaround!

I also understand it so that the oss-compat dependency will make things run when the system is rebooted after install or maybe some command to load a kernel module is issued manually.

It would be polite for the programs that rely on /dev/dsp to output a message telling users to reboot when /dev/dsp is not found.

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