Sound issue with KDEand Gcompris/Childsplay
Simon Slater
pyevet at aapt.net.au
Thu Dec 20 00:33:01 UTC 2007
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
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