On Wednesday 03 September 2003 10:10 am, HaywireMac wrote: > After runnin mplayer, I get no sound in my games. > > I do lsof +D /dev/sound, and get: > > wmsmixer 1644 joehill 4r CHR 14,0 1468 /dev/sound/mixer > xscreensa 2441 joehill 13w CHR 14,3 1469 /dev/sound/dsp > > so, I kill those and restart the sound service, but still there is no > sound in any of the games (MOHAA, Quake 1,2,3, etc.). > > any way to solve this without rebooting? (of course there is...there's > gotta be... :-P)
Check to make sure that mplayer is using the arts output plugin if you are running KDE. If it is using /dev/dsp, it may not be releasing the sound device when it is done and that would lock it up for other apps. Had this problem myself and once I configured mplayer to use arts, I haven't seen it since. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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