[linux-audio-user] PlanetCCRMA - RealPlayer -artsd problems

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

>   Yes, it was running, but he (my client) told me that it was broken
> when he tried running RP without artsd too. He also informed me that he
> had not rebooted the machine for a couple of days, and I'm wondering if
> our MusE adventures knocked out an audio device. Is that possible ?

Most probably he has some other program running (in the background?)
that is using the audio devices (something that was not killed properly
or refused to die...). 

-- Fernando

> > >   I installed RealPlayer on a machine running RH 8.0 and PlanetCCRMA. At
> > > first it worked fine, but now it gets the following error on startup
> > > under KDE :
> > >
> > >       SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT failed
> > >       Cannot allocate memory
> > >
> > >   Anyone know how to resolve the problem ? Is artsd the culprit here ?
> > 
> > Hmmm, why artsd? Do you have it running?
> > 
> > >   RealPlayer also complains that another application has the sound
> > > device. Weird: this machine has a SBLive installed with the PlanetC ALSA
> > > drivers, I don't understand why RealPlayer complains about not being
> > > able to access the device. So, how do I check to see who's hogging the
> > > resources ?
> > 
> > I think you can use "fuser", so for example do:
> >   fuser /dev/dsp
> > and it should tell you which processes if any are using the resource...
> > I think realplayer uses the oss api.