On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:19:57 -0400 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] > a friend pointed out that the first thing galeon (or opera, i guess) > will try to do when you open a flash movie will be to see if it can > access the sound device. if something else has been using it, for > whatever reason it thinks it can't use it too, even if it's not > currently in use (do a `fuser /dev/dsp` to find out). so, if i want > to watch a flash movie, the first thing i do upon starting X is to go > to one and play it. sound is fine for me in flash if it's the first > sound thing i access. if i've used xmms or ogg123 or something before > then, it won't work. [snip] Since I've had a possibly similar problem, are you saying that you need to restart X (and not just your window manager), to get rid of the error that another process is accessing /dev/dsp ? Any idea what it is that's causing the bogus error message that /dev/dsp is in use when it's not in use? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]