[newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread HaywireMac
After runnin mplayer, I get no sound in my games. I do lsof +D /dev/sound, and get: wmsmixer 1644 joehill4r 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

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
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 joehill4r CHR 14,0 1468 /dev/sound/mixer xscreensa 2441 joehill 13w CHR 14,3 1469 /dev/sound/dsp so, I kill

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:56:43 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: 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.

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
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 joehill4r CHR 14,0 1468 /dev/sound/mixer xscreensa 2441 joehill 13w CHR 14,3 1469 /dev/sound/dsp so, I kill

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:58:31 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Here, its artsd that grabs /dev/dsp and won't let go. Not XMMS. I usually killall -9 artsd and then run my games. No such process for me, is that a KDE specific thang? Your situation is probably different though.

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 01:09 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:58:31 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Here, its artsd that grabs /dev/dsp and won't let go. Not XMMS. I usually killall -9 artsd and then run my games. No such process for me, is that a KDE

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday September 3 2003 12:39 pm, HaywireMac wrote: I tried installing arts (urpmi arts), and restarted the sound service again, but in mplayer I still do not have the option to configure the arts sound driver... am I missing a step here? From the CL, 'mplayer -ao arts filename'

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:12:58 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: From the CL, 'mplayer -ao arts filename' will use aRts for the sound output. AO: [arts] can't connect to aRts soundserver Could not open/initialize audio device - no sound. Audio: no sound the prob is, tho, the

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:12:58 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: From the CL, 'mplayer -ao arts filename' will use aRts for the sound output. In fact, even if I run the artsd when X starts, and play a movie the way you suggest (I do get sound), then when I quit mplayer, I still

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 02:42 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:12:58 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: From the CL, 'mplayer -ao arts filename' will use aRts for the sound output. AO: [arts] can't connect to aRts soundserver Could not open/initialize

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday September 3 2003 02:40 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:12:58 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: From the CL, 'mplayer -ao arts filename' will use aRts for the sound output. In fact, even if I run the artsd when X starts, and play a movie the way

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday September 3 2003 01:42 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:12:58 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: From the CL, 'mplayer -ao arts filename' will use aRts for the sound output. AO: [arts] can't connect to aRts soundserver Could not open/initialize

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread crak600
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 07:56 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I believe there's a way to reduce the suspend aRts time from 60s, but since I never needed it, I'm not familiar with it. Sorry. havn't kept up with this thread too entirely much, but to change the aRTs suspend time in KDE K

Re: [newbie] No sound in Games after running mplayer

2003-09-03 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:56:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Do you have all of aRts installed? libarts1-devel-1.1.3-7mdk (might not need) arts-1.1.3-7mdk libarts1-1.1.3-7mdk (not necessarily those versions) kickarts-0.4-3tex arts-1.1.3-1tex xmms-arts-0.4-8mdk