On Monday 22 Dec 2003 11:10 am, Maureen wrote:
I get a lot of static and the bells work but it won't play the intro or any of my games music. When I start KDE it gives an error message about not being able to use the sound without a lot of clicks and static and to run artswrapper as root or setuid root. I tried to run artswrapper as root, below is a copy of my shell when I did so. I ran ps to see what was running that would use the sound device, there isn't anything I see. I am using Mandrake 9.2 with onboard AC97 sound chip. It's using the via82cxxx_audio driver. The board discription is ?VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio], and the module is ?snd-via82xx. Your help is greatly appreciated. TIA, Moe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# artswrapper
>> running as realtime process now (priority 50)
Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device or resource busy) [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ps PID TTY TIME CMD 1049 pts/1 00:00:00 su 1052 pts/1 00:00:00 bash 1097 pts/1 00:00:00 ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]#
First Configure KDEControlPanel>Sound>SoundSystem>SoundI/O
and set it to use Alsa sound server.
If that does not help install the alsa-utils RPM package.
Make a copy of your /etc/modules.conf file and then run
alsaconf
Alsaconf will rewrite your /etc/modules.conf file with the correct configuration for your sound card, but will not put in the lines which are not to do with sound. You must put those back in by hand from your backup.
I had the same problem, but running alsasound was not necessary - I just went into the KDE manager, reset sound to alsa and everything worked fine. The funny thing is that sound was alreqady set to alsa, but I had to set it again to make it work.
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