On Wednesday 05 July 2006 17:41, wwp wrote: > Hello Anne, > > On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 11:20:14 +0100 Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 10:12, wwp wrote: > > > No, in fact it's just that I get "resource busy" when I play a sound. I > > > see no process blocking the dsp, and would like to avoid rebooting! > > > > If you use kde, try kcontrol > Sound & Multimedia > Sound System and make > > sure that 'Auto-suspend if idle after:' is set to 1 second. KDE uses > > aRts, which sometimes hangs on to the sound controller. HTH > > Eheh still no luck, I'm in GNOME and even disabled artsd in KDE (that stuff > always @#$% to me) and esd in GNOME, only alsa is used there to play sound > (mplayer, audacious, etc.). > > I finally rebooted, works now :). Thanks! > Glad you got there - even if we don't really know how ;-) FWIW, aRts is on its way out. I gather that the work to move away from it is far advanced and the next kde release will not be using it. I suspect there will not be too many weepers. Anne
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