Hi

You need to have enabled oss-emulation for the alsa drivers, which
should appear as snd-pcm-oss, and snd-mixer-oss in lsmod's output.

If you've installed from source, the configure option is --with-oss=yes

- 
Myk


On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:43:19 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have installed the alsa 0.9.7 driver successfully as well as
> RealPlayer 8.0. However, when I start RealPlayer it gives the
> following message:
> 
> "Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it"
> 
> I am positive that no other application is using any sound device.
> 
> Some info:
> 
> <lsmod pipe="grep snd">
> snd-intel8x0          21604   2
> snd-ac97-codec        45880   0       [snd-intel8x0]
> snd-pcm                       78304   2       [snd-intel8x0]
> snd-timer                     18052   0       [snd-pcm]
> snd-mpu401-uart       4576    0       [snd-intel8x0]
> snd-rawmidi           17440   0       [snd-mpu401-uart]
> snd-seq-device        5644    0       [snd-rawmidi]
> snd-page-alloc                9236    0       [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]
> snd                           41124   0       [snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm 
> snd-timer
> snd-mpu401-uart
>                                                       snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
> soundcore             6276    0       [snd bttv]
> </lsmod>
> 
> <modules.conf>
> probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
> alias eth0 tg3
> #alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
> probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd
> alias eth1 3c59x
> alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
> alias /dev/nvidia*   nvidia
> 
> # ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> #module options should go here
> 
> # OSS/Free portion
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-0
> 
> # card #1
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> 
> post-install snd-intel8x0 /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
> </modules.conf>
> 
> I heard that you could use "artsd realplay" to get the sound working,
> but this needs the arts sound server which I really don't like (in
> combination with, e.g., XMMS). Even if I enable arts I get another
> error, saying it can't find "/dev/dsp" which is correct as I don't
> have such device.
> 
> Hope anyone can help,
> Stoic
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program.
> SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects.
> See the people who have HELPED US provide better services:
> Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php
> _______________________________________________
> Alsa-user mailing list
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
> 


-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program.
SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects.
See the people who have HELPED US provide better services:
Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php
_______________________________________________
Alsa-user mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user

Reply via email to