On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:19 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:34 pm, elPunishar wrote: > > high all! > > > > i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard. > > > > /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program > > running that has anything to do with sound. > > > > this means, Xine doesn't play sound because of that. > > mplayer brings a error at the start of a movie, but then plays with > > sound, but i can't control the volume on mplayer. > > most games bring an error on /dev/dsp and some of them can play sound > > with "artsdsp -m quake3" if i'm lucky. > > and sound in flash movies doesn't work.. i suspect its also because of > > that. > > > > as /dev/dsp seems to be the default sound device (which in my case has > > got some problem), maybe i need to change this somewhere and set another > > sound device for default ? > > i'm very confused.. can somebody clear it for me please ? > > If you are running KDE desktop, the artsd which is the Arts Sound daemon is > running and that will cause dsp to always be busy. You can configure Xine > to use arts sound and then it should coexist peacefully with artsd, and the > same is true for mplayer. Never had a problem with flash, so I don't know > why that would be a problem. I do have problems with realplayer and in > most cases, need to kill artsd before running any real media files and then > just start it back up again.
You can also reduce the artsd timeout in kcontrol so that programs that cannot use arts still can get the dsp if necessary. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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