Jerry McBride wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:05:34 +1100 James McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:



I have a mdk 9.0 box... sometimes when I use xmms I get the following

** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Resource temporarily unavailable

It looks as though it's due to another sound server monopolizing /dev/dsp...

How do you get them all to play happily or at least exit properly when they are done and not keep a lock on /dev/dsp?




Screw Gnome... as for OSS, well... run artsd as your base sound server. It works very well. The wrap all your apps that require OSS in the arts wrapper; artsdsp. What artsdsp does is takes OSS calls and runs them seamlessly through artsd... Very elegant.

For instance, if you want to run mpg123 to listen to a couple of *.mp3's... jst
do; artsdsp mpg123 -Z some.mp3's and mpg123 will play it's audio via the artsd
daemon.



Thanks I knew the answer had to be something I hadn't seen before... now the task is to get all the disparate system apps that use each different system to call artsdsp...

I am getting to the stage where I think it would be better to make my own distribution JamesLinux or something just so I can have everything work the way I want it to.



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