Ok, I did a little research before posting this. Often I will get a message when trying to play sound of some kind that "Cannot open /dev/dsp: Device or Resource is busy". I'm using aRts. When I boot up, before anything else happens, no applications loaded, my soundcard is already occupied and I get this message. IF I am in KDE, and only KDE so far to my knowledge as I haven't really tested elsewhere, if I type in the command prompt "killall artsd", switch XMMS to OSS Driver, it works. However if I disable aRts on KDE boot, that trick doesn't work, in fact no sound works. Same with WMaker. I haven't tried to see if sound will work on init 3 yet. Anyway, my research shows that this "bug", as it was put, was in the kernell for RedHat 7.3 but fixed for RedHat 8.0. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/
