On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 10:34 +1100, Simon Slater wrote: > G'day all, > Earlier this year I set up an old PII400 for the kids to do school > work and (of course) games. It is running FC6 and KDE 3.5.5-0.2.fc6. > When originally setting up the box I had trouble getting the sound > working, but the kids didn't really mind so I left it, thinking it was > the sound card at fault. > A couple of weeks ago some notification sounds were heard. Last night > one daughter got sound on both Gcompris and Childsplay. I did nothing > and she has no idea what she did to get it going. But the sound on these > games is only working on her login only, no one else's. > > This morning I still get the same KDE error from the control centre > Test Sound which I got at the start of the year, saying: > > Error while initializing the sound driver. device: default cannot be > opened for playback (Device or resource busy) The sound server, will > continue using the null output device. > > If all is being sent to /dev/null why do I have sound? KDE control > centre says Alsa is being used but rpm -q alsa says it is not installed. > Control centre settings are the same for all users. > > Now the other kids have heard sound on the bigger sister's login, they > want Gcompris and Childsplay to have sound for them too. I guess I need > to fix it now, but where do I start? > > Thanks > Simon Slater > and kids > Well now it gets more confusing. The sound on the 1 user login, where sound on these 2 programmes worked, stopped. After a reboot, I logged in and soung worked in both Gcompris and Childsplay, but only if one is running at a time. Starting Gcompris first then simultaneously running Childsplay, the first had sound not the latter, which also locked on quitting. So the sound is working, but I still don't know how! -- Regards Simon
