31 Mar
2003
31 Mar
'03
4:10 p.m.
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.
-- Fernando