Am 02.12.2002 um 13:09 schrieb Bruce Park: > I have a sound blaster live value card and it seems that I cannot > get this to work. I have this driver 'EMU10k1' for this card. When > I try to play an mp3 using xmms, at the prompt it tells me that it > cannot access /dev/dsp. Then xmms pops open a window with three > things basically asking me it cannot access sound, to check if I'm > blocking the audio device. I'm running KDE 2.2 and have the > appropriate audio library already in place. Can anyone help me > figure out this mistery? KDE uses a sound daemon named "artsd", which opens the dsp device when you start KDE. Every program that wants to play sound has to use this sound server. You have several options (in order of preference): - Use the arts output plugin for xmms - Use the artsdsp command - Kill artsd Regards, Dennis
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