Sound

[abouzeis]

Hi all,

One problem I'm having with knoppix is sound. My sound works but what annoys me is that for example if I have real player running and playing a song, and I open xine for example and play another song, i'll get an error. device busy or something like that. I can run gaim and have sound on and run a song at the same time. its annoying, there probably is a solution for it I hope to make the sound drivers dynamic.

some times i have to restart my computer or use the knoppix sound card detection to reset the card.

Please help

Any way thank you all for your help

[aay]

What you need is enable full duplex (assuming you have a card that supports this). See if you can adjust your settings in the Kcontrol center to allow for this.

BTW, if your sound card gets locked up, try this:

Issue either of the following command

/bin/fuser -v /dev/dsp

Your shell should then be able to see which process/program is locking up your sound card and you can kill it.

For example, I just ran this while I was running xmms.

Here's the output:

USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/dsp knoppix 11504 f.... xmms
knoppix 11505 f.... xmms
knoppix 11506 f.... xmms
knoppix 11508 f.... xmms
knoppix 11511 f.... xmms
knoppix 11512 f.... xmms

I could then kill the offending process like this:

killall xmms

If you have a process that won't seem to die, then add the -9 option like this:

killall -9 xmms

Of course youmay also kill by PID

killall -9 11504

Hope this helps