> I suppose my post got drowned in a slew of others, > so > I'm just reposting it. No problem. > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > 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. > ------------------------------------------------------ > > I want to know if anyone is having similar problems. > Is this a kernel bug? Is there something I did wrong > but didn't notice? Is there a known fix? > > Recent update: I noticed my CD player works fine and > has worked fine since straight install. If I do > above > trick and kill artsd, I can play the CD player and > sound will work normally. > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now > http://companion.yahoo.com/ > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/
