REPOST: Problem with i810 soundcard and AC 97 codec combo
Mike Klinke
lsomike at futzin.com
Sat Nov 22 04:16:50 UTC 2003
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.
> >
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
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