On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:48 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:49 am, Keith Powell wrote: > > I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs > > to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: > > > > Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy. > > > > I have checked permissions and they are correct. > > > > Any ideas to overcome this error, please? > > Are you running KDE. It sounds like the kde sound server (arts) not > releasing the dsp to arts unaware software. Try killing the sound server > in the KDE Control Center and see if that changes it. If it does, you can > try setting the idle suspend to a shorter time, or leave it off completely. > - -- > Greg
Thanks for the suggestions, Greg. Sorry, but they don't work. I deselected arts, rebooted and tried starting the program in KDE, Gnome, IceWM and Failsafe. Always the same error messages. In my reply to Derek, I mentioned that the program ran in SuSE. I was running KDE with arts active. I have just got rid of the "sampling rate" error, by reselecting arts and setting the "use custom sampling rate" to 4800 in the soundserver section of the KDE Control Center. It's just the dsp device now to crack. I wonder if I should set "use custom device" to /dev/sound/dsp or /dev/dsp? I'll try it tomorrow. -- Cheers Keith
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