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Re: kde's sound works, other utilities' doesn't



Thus spake sucks the bag (mitb@totaldeath.com):

> just started running kde (off the testing branch) recently and
> everything is fantastic EXCEPT for sound-wise.  all of kde's built-in
> sounds play find and artsplay plays waves as it should, but non-kde
> applications complain about the device being hijacked.  xmms says
> "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy", mpg321 says "Error opening libao
> oss driver. (Is device in use?)", audacity just freezes.  all of these
> programs work as usual under windowmaker.  i'm a member of audio, my
> /dev/dsp permissions are right:
> 
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio    14,    3 Jul  5  2000 /dev/dsp
> 
> this problem happens regardless of whether i start kde through kdm or
> 'startx'.  any advice?

KDE by default has a thirty second timeout on artsd, so it will take
over /dev/dsp until then.  Try using another arts* program or I believe
you can wrap the program in artdsp (if it's anything like esound was a
few years back).  

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Justin R. Miller <incanus@codesorcery.net>
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