On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 11:24, Nathaniel Gray wrote: > On Wednesday 04 June 2003 06:48 am, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Florian, > > Yes. Thanks. This is something Jaroslav pointed out later in the > > morning. With this strategy I got at least a simple alsa application > > to play sounds cleanly, so this was helpful. > > > > Can you shed any light on getting a game like frozen-bubble to use > > Alsa? When I try to start this app it lock up with error messages > > about resources being busy. > > That means that some other program is using the soundcard (only one > program at a time can use it). If you're running KDE then ARTS is a > likely suspect and you can try running "artsdsp frozenbubble". > Otherwise you can try "fuser /dev/dsp" or "fuser /dev/snd/pcmC0D1p" to > find out the PID of the process that's using it. > > Someday the dmix plugin might be usable in which case this problem will > go away.
Nathanial, Hi. Thanks for the ideas. While I know it's not practical for you to have gone back and reread all the the traffic on this over the last week or two, I think this answer, while technically correct, possibly doesn't apply in this case: 1) As I've reported, I'm running fluxbox which has no specific sound support, servers, etc., to the best of my knowledge. There is certainly nothing obvious when looking at processes. I've used Alsa under both Gnome and KDE, so I am familiar with these potential problems. 2) The single application answer would apply to other Alsa apps, like aplay also. However, I can run aplay multiple times before I run frozen-bubble, and I can run it immediately after killing frozen-bubble after the hand. If some other application was using Alsa, and blocking frozen-bubble, then I would expect it to block ALL other Alsa apps, and not just frozen-bubble. > > > Am I correct in guessing that an app like frozen-bubble is using > > the OSS portion of Alsa? Is there some setup that I can do to point > > OSS sound requests to this default device? > > That's pretty much automatic. There's nothing you need to do. Probably true, but I was told that using aplay would be automatic also, and it wasn't. I've had to associate a pcm.!default entity to get it to work, so something is not quite right. I continue to wonder if something similar is effecting the OSS part of this machine. I will have to look into the fuser idea. It sounds interesting. Currently I have a different sound card loaded and this problem does not appear. I'll have to load up the Via driver and try this out. None the less, thanks for your insights. I will continue to look for the answer, but this is software and I am blind. With best regards, Mark ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
