Sound Card problem with alsa

SaFrOuT · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 256 Location: Egypt

my card is
root@home safrout # grep audio /proc/pci
Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio (rev 1).

and i have installed alsa yest and it was working fine
but today after installing alsa-xmms my sound card doesn't respong and when i press on play button in xmms it hangs

sow ehn trying to check my sound card using this
aplay $KDEDIR/share/sounds/pop.wav it doesn't do anything and hangs until i press CTRL+C

can anyone help plz

i am using alsa 0.9.6 is that the probelm or what

SaFrOuT · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 256 Location: Egypt

i have got this error after about 20 min since i tried to ran the check play program

ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1055:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy

Zoltan · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 8:56 pm Post subject:

Any application that tries to access an alsa device that is already open by another application hangs. This goes on until that first application releases the device. Solution is use arts (KDE) or esd (Gnome) sound managers that make sound mixing from all applications that use sound through them.

If you are unsure which application took your /dev/adsp device, use fuser command.

SaFrOuT · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 256 Location: Egypt

am sure it is not about using the sound device by another prog

since i didn restarted my system and started xmms but i got the same behave

Woody · Guru Joined: 30 Nov 2002 Posts: 592 Location: Milwaukee

I'd all but guarentee there is another application (artsd or esd) stealing
the device.

SaFrOuT · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 256 Location: Egypt

i have solved ti
it was caused due to some bad config with the arts

Control Center --> Sound & Mutlimedia --> Sound System

i decrease the idle time to 5 sec instead of 60 sec and unchecked the Enable ful duplex operation