Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use
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! -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use
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? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use
On Monday 17 Nov 2003 1:25 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: 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 thank you all! the command: artsshell suspend works like a charm :) greetings. lukas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:09 am, many eyes noted that 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! Run $ top and look if aplay is running. if so kill it. Charlie -- Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help the rabbit. -- R.E. Shay This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] /dev/dsp always in use
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 ? tnx a lot! lukas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use
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. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use
elPunishar said: 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 ? tnx a lot! lukas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Both mplayer and xine can be set to use artsd, and in konqueror, under plugins/plugins, you can set them to use artsd for playback. You can also disable artsd when you want to play a game via kcontrol, then turn it back on when done. -- Live fast, die young, You're sucking up my bandwidth. J.P. Pasnak, CD CCNA http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] /dev/dsp always in use
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
