Re: OSS Sound server


Subject: Re: OSS Sound server
From: Adam Elkins (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Sun May 05 2002 - 01:21:37 AKDT


James Gibson wrote:

>On Sun, 5 May 2002, Adam Elkins wrote:
>
>>Well, Don't I look silly. I was trying to play some Loki games, I can
>>play'em fine in KDE with sound, if I choose the OSS option....In gnome,
>>I can't here any sound. I was thinking it defaulted to something other
>>than the OSS option KDE offered.
>>
>
>Hmmm... KDE and Gnome each have their own daemons that they run to
>traffic-cop sound output. This might be what you're thinking of... the
>Loki games should blithly ignore all of that and try to latch on to the
>device files...
>
>Quick thought, what soundcard do you have? most drivers only allow one
>process to open the device at a time. the SB Live! is the only exception
>that I know of.. I've been running a Live! for so long I tend to forget
>those type of problems.. If you aren't using a Live! card you may need to
>make sure Gnome has it's sound daemon disabled...
>
>you might also see what has latched itself onto the sound device.. run:
>"lsof | grep /dev/dsp" the first column is what you're interested in.
>
>I don't have a copy of either KDE or Gnome in front of me right now so if
>this doesn't help, I'm sorry. good luck.
>
>James Gibson
>
>
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Killing esd did it. Thanks

Adam

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