Re: sound device reset

[Thomas Weber]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:01:40AM -0400, Daye Liu wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 10:09 +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:41:46PM -0400, Daye Liu wrote:
> > > Hello, this might be fixed in more recent version, but we are stuck at 
> > > 3.0.3
> > > due to system permission issues.  Anyway, it won't play because of the
> > > ofsndplay does not exist under Fedora.  Is there 'anyway' that this can be
> > > circumvented? I tried to reset the global variable sound_play_utility in
> > > .octaverc without much luck.  Thanks.
> > 
> > Your bug report leaves some information out, so I'm guessing:
> > You are using the octave-forge audio package and it doesn't work. Is
> > that correct?
> > 
> > Is the audio package globally installed or can you install a new
> > version?
> 
> It's not really a bug report, as I noticed you raised the issue 
> last October, and have it fixed in a few days.  However, we are
> stuck with the Octave and Octave-forge.  They are globally
> installed.  I am just curious, since it has been a while, has
> there been a solution that enables a user to overcome this
> locally?

Do you have write access to the package's PKG_ADD file? One time should
be enough, you just need to delete the global setting of 
        globalsound_play_utility="ofsndplay -";
from it.

        Thomas