On Freitag 08 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > > > On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > > I cannot access /dev/dsp once Amarok 2 has started playback, even > > > > > if the playback was stopped. I have to close Amarok, then /dev/dsp > > > > > is accessible again. Does anyone know why this is? > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > no problem here. So.. maybe you forgot something. dmix should do > > > > everything for you. Are you using the xine backend for amarok/phonon? > > > > > > Thanks for the info, Armin. So I know it _should_ work. > > > > > > I'm using the xine backend. I forgot about this settings until you > > > mentioned phonon, that let me find it again in the system settings. > > [...] > > > you could also check the xine settings - start xine, got to the audio > > settings and check them. > > Not many settings there... okay, I had to enable expert mode. I played > around with some of the the settings, but I see no change. And when I set > the audio driver to null, xine does not give audio output, but KDE/Amarok > still do. I restarted alsasound and KDE, same result. How can that be? > > Wonko
when you go to the multimedia settings in system settings - are those ok? right devices? xine set?