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