[BRLTTY] alert tones

[Mario Lang]

Daniel Dalton <d.dalton at iinet.net.au> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:43:52AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Daniel Dalton, le Tue 10 Mar 2009 21:31:58 +1100, a écrit :
>> > How do I make the alert notifications come through my speakers not the
>> > pc beeper? (Using alsa so emacspeak can talk and music can play?)
>> 
>> Use the -p option.
>
> Edited /etc/brltty.conf and added this line:
> pcm-device	pcm-handle-id:0,0	# ALSA (see second parameter of
> snd_pcm_open)
>
> Open prefs menu and set tune device to pcm... Alert tunes is on
> also... Save on exit: yes. Restart brltty braille driver...:
> sudo /etc/init.d/brltty restart
>
> No tunes... I have music playing in the background (alsa), and an
> emacspeak server talking to write this email along side the music...

This reminds me, I recently tried to get MIDI alert tunes with timidity to run,
but failed.  DId anyone recently have MIDI alerts via ALSA working?

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