On Monday 17 Nov 2003 1:09 pm, Ronald J. Hall 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. > > First off, do (as root) a: > > lsof /dev/dsp > > and it will show you what (if anything) has it tied up. If > something has it, you can kill it using the given pid number. If > nothing is hoarding it, then you might want to go into the KDE > control center and reduce the amount of time that artsd (the usual > suspect!) is using. > > HTHs!
Under 9.1 I've had a few niggles with sound. The first improvement was when I followed the advice to find sound in kde's control center, and shorten the release time to 1. That was a big improvement. For some apps you may need to run kickarts, which temporarily switches off artsd. It installs a tray icon so you can switch arts in and out at will. HTH Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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