No /etc/init.d/alsa? How to restart alsa services?
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Wed Jul 5 17:00:02 UTC 2006
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 17:41, wwp wrote:
> Hello Anne,
>
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 11:20:14 +0100 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>
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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