[SoaS] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 27.04.2010, at 00:17, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> 
>> * There is no sound in Etoys.
>> Pulseaudio is running but padsp is not installed (which Etoys uses to fall back on OSS when it detects PA).
>> To test, click the little red car icon in the screen's top right corner, then click the yellow exclamation mark button in front of the "Car make sound" tile. You should hear a croak if it is working.
> 
> So does etoys not support PA?

Not properly yet, in the current version.

> Or does it fall back to using OSS emulation layer when it detects PA?

Yes.

> What other sound layers does it support?

Of the Linux ones, ALSA. But Etoys works better with PA's OSS emulation than its ALSA emulation IIRC.

> I don't find a padsp package in Fedora.

I think in a regular Fedora install "rpm -f `which padsp`" should find it.
My guess is that it is in pulseaudio-utils.

- Bert -