Sometimes, after my system has been running awhile, I get a problem with
my sound that makes all playing impossible. I log in to kdm and try to
start x11amp or some similar mp3 player, no sound, song quits immediately.
I open a shell and try to play using mpg123, which sometimes helps because
then I can get error messages, and I get the following:
Audio device open for 22.05Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 44.1Khz, 16bit mono.
/dev/dsp: Cannot allocate memory
Audio device open for 44.1Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 22.05Khz, 8bit mono.
/dev/dsp: Cannot allocate memory
Audio device open for 22.05Khz, mono, 8bit failed
Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit stereo.
/dev/dsp: Cannot allocate memory
Audio device open for 11.025Khz, stereo, 8bit failed
Trying 11.025Khz, 8bit mono.
....
Etcetera. Thinking perhaps some program is locking up the device, I go to
top to see what programs are running, and try to one at a time kill
anything that might be interfering, and then retry the mpg123 play. The
one time I got a success with this tactic, I had just killed maudio, but
then right after that song had completed, back to the previous condition.
So any idea's what's going on?
Later,
David
"Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice, there is no Law."
