Problems with sound

[Jamie Maynard]

Hi All

Thought I would shed some light on this subject.  The simple reason is as
the first guy said.  The ArTs Sound Server is using this /dev/dsp device.
MOL sadly doesn't support arts at this stage so you need to use the wrapper
(artsdsp) when you use MOL under KDE.

So on the command line you would type:

# artsdsp startmol 

Then it will boot as per normal but all sound will be routed via MOL.

Jamie

P.S.  Samuel Please can we have arts support under MOL soon.. Please!! *G*

On 13/11/2002 8:51AM, "Jens Schmalzing"
<jens.schmalzing@physik.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Niklaus Giger writes:
> 
>> Sound under KDE is no problem. But everytime I call startmol I cannot
>> hear the startboing and I have the following error in my mol.0.log
>> ----> Sound Disabled. Failed to open /dev/dsp
> 
>> What could be the problem?
> 
> Use the command `lsof /dev/dsp' to check if another process is already
> sitting on the sound device.  If this is the case, other processes
> won't be able to open it for themselves.  You have to either free the
> sound device by killing the process that occupies it or share it using
> the EsounD daemon and MOL's esd driver.
> 
> Regards, Jens.