Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

[Alex Schuster]

Volker Armin Hemmann writes:

> On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:

> > I cannot access /dev/dsp once Amarok 2 has started playback, even if
> > the playback was stopped. I have to close Amarok, then /dev/dsp is
> > accessible again. Does anyone know why this is?
[...]
> no problem here. So.. maybe you forgot something. dmix should do
> everything for you. Are you using the xine backend for amarok/phonon?

Thanks for the info, Armin. So I know it _should_ work.

I'm using the xine backend. I forgot about this settings until you mentioned 
phonon, that let me find it again in the system settings.

I tried changing it to gstreamer. After I did so, even amarok was unable to 
play any sound, and switching back to xine did not help either. I had to log 
out and in again. From then on, when starting quake3-bin, the display 
freezed, and I had to kill X. There was no sound. Amarok was not started 
yet. I also experienced a couple of X crashes after starting quake3 [*] and 
got back to the kdm screen. Then I had to do some work and did not play more 
with the settings. Now I'm also busy, I will play a little with it in the 
evening.

[*] quake3 is the open source variant, it works well with ALSA, but does not 
work with punkbuster anti-cheating software, so I need the quake3-bin 
version running.

	Wonko