Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] PlanetCCRMA - RealPlayer -artsd problems
From: Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano (nando_AT_ccrma.Stanford.EDU)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 22:00:37 EEST
> I installed RealPlayer on a machine running RH 8.0 and PlanetCCRMA. At
> first it worked fine, but now it gets the following error on startup
> under KDE :
>
> SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT failed
> Cannot allocate memory
>
> Anyone know how to resolve the problem ? Is artsd the culprit here ?
Hmmm, why artsd? Do you have it running?
> RealPlayer also complains that another application has the sound
> device. Weird: this machine has a SBLive installed with the PlanetC ALSA
> drivers, I don't understand why RealPlayer complains about not being
> able to access the device. So, how do I check to see who's hogging the
> resources ?
I think you can use "fuser", so for example do:
fuser /dev/dsp
and it should tell you which processes if any are using the resource...
I think realplayer uses the oss api.
-- Fernando
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