On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 10:20 pm, Keith Powell wrote: > 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.
Monday. Setting the "use custom device" to /dev/sound/dsp has made no difference. -- Cheers Keith
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