Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] simple question

[Eric Blossom]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:48:50AM -0400, Lee Patton wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 05:19 +0000, Newell Jensen wrote:
> > I have been having problems getting the audio examples to work from the 
> > command line.  I can get the examples to execute by clicking on their 
> > respective GUI icons but when I go to do it from the command line I do not 
> > hear anything coming out of my speakers.
> > 
> > address@hidden:~/gr-build/gnuradio-examples/python/audio> chmod a+x 
> > dial_tone.py
> > address@hidden:~/gr-build/gnuradio-examples/python/audio> ./dial_tone.py
> > 
> > [1]+  Stopped                 ./dial_tone.py
> > 
> > I actually had to press Ctrl Z to stop it because it doesn't do anything 
> > after I press enter.  Anyone have suggestions.  I am a newbie and trying to 
> > figure this out.  Thanks.
> 
> Not sure about your audio problem here, but I think you want to be using
> CTRL-C to kill your jobs, not CTRL-Z, which suspends your jobs.  See:
> http://linuxreviews.org/beginner/jobs/
> 

The audio problem could be that some other program has the audio
device open exclusively.  This could be a "sound daemon" for your
desktop (e.g., esound or arts).  If you've got those enabled or
running, try killing them.

Eric