Bug 678570

Summary:	Make gtick use ALSA or Pulseaudio device
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Gérard Milmeister <gemi>
Component:	gtick	Assignee:	Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury <sherry151>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	14	CC:	csaavedra, ferrazrafael, pampelmuse, sherry151
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Description Gérard Milmeister 2011-02-18 13:29:42 UTC

gtick uses /dev/dsp only. However the ALSA compatibility module for OSS is not loaded by default, and if loaded, the device has not the required permissions.

There are to possibilities:
1. Always prefix gtick with aoss from alsa-oss
2. Always prefix gtick with padsp from pulseaudio-utils

I think the first option is to be preferred, since it works whether pulseaudio is running or not, and, for me at least, the pulseaudio solution often fails.

Comment 1 Claudio Saavedra 2011-06-16 09:44:58 UTC

It is ridiculous that this package is in the main repository and it doesn't work at all after installed.

Comment 2 Christoph Karl 2011-07-17 09:57:39 UTC

For me solution "aoss gtick" is working,
"padsp gtick" is only working for a short time (~30s).

Nevertheless please make gtick use ALSA or Pulseaudio device.

Also working correctly after being installed would be fine.

For me it seems to be the only metronome in the fedora repository (?)
So please do not remove it.

I use F15 plus all updates.

Thank you

Comment 3 Rafael Louback Ferraz 2011-10-15 18:05:53 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> It is ridiculous that this package is in the main repository and it doesn't
> work at all after installed.

I agree!! (not working on fedora 15)

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