Sound again! RealPlayer10 working but nothing else ...

[Timothy Murphy]

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.

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