Sound problem on Severn

[gboyce at badbelly.com]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Steven Haigh wrote:

> Thiago Vinhas de Moraes wrote:
> 
> >Em Ter, 2003-09-02 Ã s 09:15, Steven Haigh escreveu:
> >  
> >
> >>>>Before I get inside KDE, the sound works fine, and I can test the
> >>>>soundcard using eox to play songs, or cat /etc/dsp. After I log in KDE,
> >>>>and the Arts server runs, I can't use any other application that uses
> >>>>sound. If I give a cat /dev/dsp it gives a "Resource Busy" response. If
> >>>>I try to run xmms or any other sound player, the same problem.
> >>>>
> >>>>Does anyone has a way to fix this?
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>You need to use the KDE Kontrol Centre to release the
> >>>device after a certain amount of time. Something like
> >>>30 seconds should do it.
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Or configure XMMS to use artsd...
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >It doesn't work. Crashes..
> >But I need to run VMware and it can't open /dev/dsp too.
> >
> >  
> >
> that being the case, you'll have to 'killall artsd' before you run 
> VMWare... I'm not sure if there's a way around it, but iirc VMware only 
> uses direct access to /dev/dsp and can't/won't share with a sound daemon... 

ESD provides a wrapper for launching applications that directly use 
/dev/dsp.  I'm not too familiar with artsd, but perhaps it provides 
something similiar?

Looking at the arts package itself, artswrapper looks kind of promising, 
although the machine I'm on right now is 7.3, so things might have changed 
since then.

Gregory Boyce