Hi, I had the same problem. The reason is the KDE soundserver. I had no success with changing the values.
You must deactivate the soundserver and restart KDE, thats all. Andreas Am Freitag, 2. November 2001 06:02 schrieb sucks the bag: > just started running kde (off the testing branch) recently and everything > is fantastic EXCEPT for sound-wise. all of kde's built-in sounds play find > and artsplay plays waves as it should, but non-kde applications complain > about the device being hijacked. xmms says "/dev/dsp: Device or resource > busy", mpg321 says "Error opening libao oss driver. (Is device in use?)", > audacity just freezes. all of these programs work as usual under > windowmaker. i'm a member of audio, my /dev/dsp permissions are right: > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 5 2000 /dev/dsp > > this problem happens regardless of whether i start kde through kdm or > 'startx'. any advice? > > --- > macho Remove the ending "z" from the mailadress!
