Sound problem on Severn

[Steven Haigh]

Thiago Vinhas de Moraes wrote:

>Em Ter, 2003-09-02 às 09:15, Steven Haigh escreveu:
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>>>>Before I get inside KDE, the sound works fine, and I can test the
>>>>soundcard using eox to play songs, or cat /etc/dsp. After I log in KDE,
>>>>and the Arts server runs, I can't use any other application that uses
>>>>sound. If I give a cat /dev/dsp it gives a "Resource Busy" response. If
>>>>I try to run xmms or any other sound player, the same problem.
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone has a way to fix this?
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>>>You need to use the KDE Kontrol Centre to release the
>>>device after a certain amount of time. Something like
>>>30 seconds should do it.
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>>Or configure XMMS to use artsd...
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>It doesn't work. Crashes..
>But I need to run VMware and it can't open /dev/dsp too.
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that being the case, you'll have to 'killall artsd' before you run 
VMWare... I'm not sure if there's a way around it, but iirc VMware only 
uses direct access to /dev/dsp and can't/won't share with a sound daemon...
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