On Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > 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
you could also check the xine settings - start xine, got to the audio settings and check them.
