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aidoru

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Monday, April 19th 2004, 12:43pm

kde audio and screensavers don't work on mdk

Hi, I experienced some problems using Kde (3.1/2) on mandrake (9-10).

The first is related to the audio output. After few minutes of run, the audio stops working, the error is:
"Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device or resource busy)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device."

Does anyone know How I should set the audio server or what the related permissions are?

The second one is the list of the screen-savers, they disappeare from the list a little bit after the installation. Everything works when kde is freshly installed or in root mode, and the reappear if I delete the .kde folder, but the return lasts just for a while.

Could anyone help me, please?

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Tuesday, April 20th 2004, 7:22am

Hi!

Try play a sound as root and if sound is a permission problem.

Change the file /dev/dsp to audio group or add your user to audio group.

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Tuesday, April 20th 2004, 9:26am

thank you, kharkoma.

By now I' ve disabled ARTs, and it's going better,
even if sometimes the sound stops anyway.
I use a c-media 8738 sound card, that's not a good card, so maybe my problems are related to it.
Today I setted the rights for /dev/dsp, we'll see.

ciao to you and to your beautiful town and people.
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Tuesday, April 20th 2004, 2:36pm

8738 fine

I am using a 8738 (Aureon Fun from Terratec) and it is working perfect with ... on MDK 10 I was not able to test it because I removed MDK 10 after installation quickly :? but the most Distros I used where able to use the card with Arts/ALSA ... do you know if everything with alsa is configured well??

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Tuesday, April 20th 2004, 5:02pm

actually I'm not sure, maybe something is wrong with the config:
with arts off and the rights on /dev/dsp the sound goes on to stop working.

The reason of what I said is that my sound card (on board with asus p533 mainboard) always troubled me, when I was using winxp. It took one year to get a well suited driver. So I assumed the card was not so great.

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