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