Lost sound in Doom3 after enabling desktop sounds
Kyrre Ness Sjobak
kyrre at solution-forge.net
Sat Nov 13 22:09:53 UTC 2004
lør, 13.11.2004 kl. 22.35 skrev Ernest L. Williams Jr.:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying the Doom 3 demo; it is awesome!!
> However, I have lost my sound after enabling sound special effects in
> KDE:
>
> Here is what the doom start up shows:
> ======================================================================--------------------------------------
> --- Common Initialization Complete ---
> ------------- Warnings ---------------
> during DOOM 3 initialization...
> WARNING: failed to open sound device '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy
>
> WARNING: sound subsystem disabled
> ============================================================================================
>
> Any ideas?
> Meanwhile, I will attempt to disable all of the sound special effects in
> KDE.
>
Probably because enabling those effects causes ARTSD to start, blocking
/dev/dsp. Does ARTSD have to use OSS? Because DOOM3 does, and OSS only
supports one app using the soundcard at once.
Alsa is better...
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