Problems with sound

[Niklaus Giger]

On Mittwoch, 13. November 2002 22.26, Jamie Maynard wrote:
> 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 startmold 

If I call "artsdsp startmol" I hear a garbled sound (e.g. noise). If I kill 
artsd before calling startmol, the sound is okay. This allows me to work 
around the bug.

Thanks to everybody who helped me track down the problem.
>
> 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

`lsof /dev/dsp' shows me that indeed artsd is using /dev/dsp.

> > 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.
> >
Best regards
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