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kde audio and screensavers on mandrake

aidoru

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Saturday, April 17th 2004, 5:38pm

kde audio and screensavers on mandrake

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? [/quote]

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Tuesday, August 3rd 2004, 12:17am

Re: the screensaver thing
Is it just the XScreenSaver stuff that's disappearing. I couldn't get these to appear, either. I think you have to build your own version of the kde-artwork-screensaver package to make them appear (Mandrake seems to have broke this, for some unknown reason)
You could always just disable the KDE screensaver and use XScreensaver instead (that's what I did, as I'm a lazy bugger ^_~)
As to the sound thing, try becoming root and typing something like
chmod +rwx /dev/dsp /dev/sequencer (It could be a security risk, but it should help)
If not, check in the control centre if the sound server is set up to the system you're using (OSS, ESD or ALSA - probably the latter). I had this problem with Mandrake, too, but I can't remember how I fixed it (I use a Soundblaster 5.1 Live! Digital - is this what you use?)
You can check which sound system you're using in HardDrake - if the sound module's name begins with snd_ eg. snd_emu10k1 then it's ALSA, otherwise it's OSS
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