Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] PlanetCCRMA - RealPlayer -artsd problems
From: Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano (nando_AT_ccrma.Stanford.EDU)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 00:44:55 EEST
> Yes, it was running, but he (my client) told me that it was broken
> when he tried running RP without artsd too. He also informed me that he
> had not rebooted the machine for a couple of days, and I'm wondering if
> our MusE adventures knocked out an audio device. Is that possible ?
Most probably he has some other program running (in the background?)
that is using the audio devices (something that was not killed properly
or refused to die...).
-- Fernando
> > > 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.
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