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

[lists@breitenbach-sc.dez]

Hi,

I had the same problem. The reason is the KDE soundserver. 
I had no success with changing the values.

You must deactivate the soundserver and restart KDE, thats
all.

Andreas


Am Freitag, 2. November 2001 06:02 schrieb sucks the bag:
> 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?
>
> ---
> macho


Remove the ending "z" from the mailadress!