Sound again! RealPlayer10 working but nothing else ...

[Jeremy Davis]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Does RealPlayer use its own sound module?
> 
> I'm running Fedora-4 with linux-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 ,
> and I'm quite baffled by the sound setup.
> Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not.
> I have tried changing settings in alsamixer,
> and this sometimes seems to work, and sometimes does not.
> 

I had the same issue with xmms, sometimes sound would work sometimes it 
wouldn't. My problem was the java-vm accessing the /dev/dsp device.
To see what is using the /dev/dsp I issued a:
'fuser -v /dev/dsp'
Then killed whatever process was using it and xmms worked like a champ.

Is there any way to share the device for multiple programs??

> But RealPlayer10 seems to work fine.
> 
> Actually, after leaving RealPlayer10,
> sound seems to be restored, as heard when clicking "Play test sound" in
> System Settings=>Soundcard Detection .
> 
> Incidentally, is that the best way to test sound?
> Would "cat <sound file> > /dev/dsp" be a more reliable test?
> 
> Probably not relevant, but the sound system in my laptop 
> is Yamaha YMF-754 [DS-1E Audio Controller]
> and the kernel uses the snd-ymfpci module .
> 
> 

Thanks
JT

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