[Xastir] audio alarms

[Curt Mills]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Massimo Corinaldesi wrote:

> Since some weeks, Xastir is no more able to notify via audio alarms. It seems 
> to me as Xastir cannot start the player, in my case noatun. My system is 
> mandrake 10.1.
> I need some suggestions on how to "debug" the situation and try to correct the 
> problem.

Best way is to get the player to play the sounds via the
command-line, including the path to the executable and all
command-line switches.  After you get that working from a shell, put
the same exact command into Xastir's config box for audio alarms,
again including the path.  For instance I have:

    /usr/bin/aplay -q

In mine, but I can't test right now because since I did an OS
upgrade on this system I couldn't get audio working easily, and I
haven't gone back to look at it.  It's an SuSE problem on this
system, not an Xastir problem.

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