On Wednesday 31 October 2001 01:25, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: >> > /etc/init.d/alsa stop > Doing /usr/sbin/alsactl-0.5 to store mixer settings...done. > Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.5.11): no. (sound is being > used by pid 1628 ) > > pid 1628 is the kde kicker: > > ps ax | grep 1628 > 1628 ? S 0:07 kdeinit: kicker > > and: > envy24control > snd_ctl_open: Invalid argument
aRts is your problem (or at least part of it). Go to the control centre and select: Sound -> Sound Server then disable "Start aRts soundserver on KDE startup". Then kill aRts (try ps -fu <your userid> | grep arts) to find the server [IIRC it's called artsd]. Now try "aplay soundfile.wav" and with a bit of luck you'll get something. That said I believe that 0.9b8 (or CVS) is much better for the envy24 cards [KDE won't like it too much -- noatun and kmid are not usable since both refuse to use OSS when ALSA is present but can't yet use the 0.9 API]. James -- +------------------------+-------------------------------+---------+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | University of Birmingham | -- \/` | | Ph: 0121-414-6462. Fax: 0121-414-3722 | | +--------------------------------------------------------+---------+ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
