Sound Server Failure

[Karl Pearson]

On Wed, March 14, 2007 2:05 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 12:18 -0700, Karl Pearson wrote:
>> For a while now I can only hear one thing at a time. Duplexing doesn't work,
>> if that's what it's called.
>>
>> Details:
>>
>> FC6 2911.6.5 kernel
>> mplayer streaming live radio.
>> Kicking off a window which should play a chime when a dialog window comes up
>> and instead, I get an Informational artsmessage:
>>
>> Sound server informational message:
>> Error while initializing the sound driver:
>> device: default can't be opened for playback (Device or resource busy)
>> The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
>>
>> Where do I set arts to listen to more than one thing at a time?
>
> Uh, I think you mean alsa, don't you?

Nope. I copied from the dialogue window.

 I think you probably have mplayer
> opening the sound system in exclusive mode.  Bring up the preferences
> and see which audio driver you're using.  I'm using OSS.

Actually, I loaded kcontrol and went into the hardware section and selected
Enlightened Sound Daemon, then clicked on APPLY, and it works. Now when I
logout and back in, it doesn't work again. I can open kcontrol and re-select
to get it up again. ALSO and annoyingly, OSS and ALSA don't work. It had been
on Auto Detect.

Is there something I can run at login for xfce4? I'll try a couple things and
will probably figure it out...

Oh, this is the box that USB doesn't work on...

Karl

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