On Mon 25 Jul 2005 14:06, Jeremy Davis wrote: > > I'm running Fedora-4 with linux-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 , > > and I'm quite baffled by the sound setup. > > Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. > > I have tried changing settings in alsamixer, > > and this sometimes seems to work, and sometimes does not. > > I had the same issue with xmms, sometimes sound would work sometimes it > wouldn't. My problem was the java-vm accessing the /dev/dsp device. > To see what is using the /dev/dsp I issued a: > 'fuser -v /dev/dsp' > Then killed whatever process was using it and xmms worked like a champ. Thanks very much, that sounds very plausible. I haven't been able to try it yet, as when I went to test it I found sound had started working again! fuser didn't find any other user. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
