Thanks for the reply and the original post, it saved me some time researching. I have sound working better, but XMMS is now slowing down and has strange distortion in the sound. What setting in KDe should i set the sound card for? (this seems to be the culprit...)
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 19:05, Maureen wrote: > robin wrote: > > > Derek Jennings wrote: > > > >> 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. > > > > Sir Robin > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > Thanks Derek, I reset to alsa sound server and all is fine. didn't even > have to alsaconfig. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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