On Friday 21 November 2003 20:24, Kojiro Dracomour wrote: > > 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. > > I sent this a couple of days ago but it seems the list processor went on vacation for a bit. Hope it's not a duplicate .... Like you, I get the "Cannot open /dev/dsp" message when aRts is enabled in the control center. However, when I disable it so it doesn't start up on boot, I have sound; e.g. "play <somefile.wav>." Mind you, I'm probably not a real good person to ask as I find sound on a computer more anoying than not so I don't really test that aspect very well but for the few things I do use it for disabling aRts seems to work. This is a Sony VAIO laptop with the i810 chip set. 04:07:09 # lspci 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 03) 04:07:15 # lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted i810_audio 27752 1 (autoclean) ac97_codec 17192 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio] soundcore 6468 2 (autoclean) [i810_audio] Regards, Mike Klinke
