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Re: mozilla freezing when /dev/dsp busy



Onsdag den 21. august 2002 18:37 skrev Erik Steffl:
>   mozilla freezes from time to time when /dev/dsp is busy. It's quite
> annoying becuase it makes it impossible to use mozilla while listening
> to music (on the same computer). It seems like it freezes even if
> there's no sound, at least no sound I could hear. I only know it's
> /dev/dsp because when I stop xmms mozilla un-freezes.
>
>   Netscape freezes as well but I always hear sound afterwards (when it
> uhn-freezes) so that's understandable. It doesn't happen  very often
> with netscape so I suspect that mozilla is trying to open /dev/dsp for
> no good reason.
>
>   is there a solution for this problem? (except of sound server)
>
>   I already filed a bug...
>

Don't know if this if what you're after, but have you tried to 
'dpkg-reconfigure mozilla-browser'? This gives you an option to choose your 
sound daemon's dsp wrapper (auto, esddsp, artsdsp).  Try changing your 
setting. 

/frederik



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