On May 4, 2005 03:22, P roca wrote: > Package: okle > Version: 0.4+cvs20040728-1 > Severity: important > > Okle don't start if arts is running. I get the error: > > FATAL[ogle_audio]: failed opening the oss audio driver at /dev/dsp > ctrl: ipc_rmid: Invalid argument > > In the ogle FAQ I read: > > 32. How do I get sound to work in KDE with artsd? > > If you want to launch ogle from within KDE (with artsd running), you > need to type 'artsdsp ogle' > > Thanks for all the work you put into Debian, and I hope this bug report > is helpful
Thanks for the report. It seems likely that this isn't a problem in okle, so much as an indication that you need to do a bit of work to get it running due to the unfortunate fact that it (well, the ogle back-end actually) only supports the legacy OSS sound system. First of all, make sure that your user is a member of the audio group. Type "groups" at the command line to check this. Some sound cards support the ability to have multiple devices access them simultaneously - yours probably doesn't, meaning that for okle to work, it must be the only running sound application. Closing all other sound using applications should help. Otherwise, there exist "sound daemons". Applications send their sound to the daemon, rather than the kernel directly (through /dev/dsp), and the daemon puts all the different sounds together and mixes them into one, then sends it to the kernel, thus working around the "one device at a time" limitation of most sound cards under Linux. okle/ogle don't support arts, or other sound daemons. This is a problem, since if arts is running then it counts as a sound-using application and blocks the device (look for a process called "artsd"). Running artsdsp, followed by the program you want to run, is a crude work-around for this problem - it tricks the program into thinking it has exclusive access to /dev/dsp while actually sending sound through the arts daemon. So, after ensuring that you are in the audio group, you could either shut down all sound using applications before using okle, including artsd (in the KDE Control Center, the "Sound System" panel allows you to turn off the Sound System, which is arts). Or you could try, from the command line, running "artsdsp okle". Let me know how it goes. Thanks, Christopher Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
