Hi Shriram,
I have downloaded and built the GNU radio source code release 3.0
(Minimal Build)
on cygwin. The installation went without any error. But when i tryied to
run the sample
dial_tone.py, i didnt get any error but at the same time there was no dial
tone sound at the
output. So i checked that the “WAVE” source was enabled in the audio
control panel as
instructed, but still no output came.
If GNU Radio and Python don’t complain, then you are probably pretty
close.
When you run dial_tone.py, does it come back with a prompt or does it
hang
until you type Ctrl-C?
Does your pc play sounds when you log on, log off, or click on a link?
If
not, the problem is with your pc sound (speakers, sound card, mixer
settings, etc.).
You can check the Cygwin emulation of the OSS sound device with
cat C:/Windows/Media/ringin.wav > /dev/dsp
(If you don’t have ringin.wav, look for the file
samples/sound/cuckoo.wav
that came with wxPython and use it instead.) If this produces no sound,
then the problem is with Cygwin’s OSS emulation.
If the tests above produce sound, then either there is a problem in GNU
Radio, or it is asking your sound hardware to do something it can’t do.
You
might try using the “-r” option on dial_tone.py to specify a playback
sampling rate, e.g.:
python dial_tone.py -r 8000
or
./dial_tone.py -r 21400
Another thing you might try is using the Windows sound driver instead of
OSS. One way to do this is to make a copy of dial_tone.py that uses the
Windows sound driver. Do this by changing the line
from gnuradio import audio
to
from gnuradio import audio_windows as audio
in a copy of dial_tone.py.
Earlier when i was installing the wxpython module as stated in the page
http://gnuradio.utah.edu/trac/wiki/wxPythonCygwin
all the steps went well, but when i tried to run the demo.py as indicated
in the 13th step, I
didnt get the output and no error was reported. I feel these two issues
have a link and hence
i tried the steps once again, but then got the same problem again…No
Output and No
error… Where could the problem be??
dial_tone.py doesn’t use wxPython, so there probably isn’t a direct
connection, but there could be an indirect connection. Perhaps Python
is
not set up correctly. What output do the following commands produce?
which python
ls -l `which python`
python -V
cygcheck -c python
cygcheck /usr/bin/python2.4
(I assume you are using Python version 2.4, that you are running
dial_tone.py from a Cygwin shell window, and that PYTHONPATH is set to
/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages.)
Let me know if any of this helps or if you can supply any additional
information.
– Don W.