Hi, On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 13:13, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > It may possibly be that another program already has the soundcard open.
I just tried shutting down all other programs, including alsa one time, but no luck... > Can you play sound in other applications that directly access the > soundcard? Eg. XMMS with the "OSS driver" output plugin selected? Yes. > If not, it may be that you're using ALSA. This will keep the soundcard > open all the time so that multiple programs can play sound (through > ALSA) at the same time. Try starting xmms by typing "artsdsp xmms" on a > command line. This works. > If this works, try starting your game in the same way. This didn't work... > The "artsdsp" program will emulate direct access to the soundcard. Maybe the artsdsp program has problems as well? > I'm not sure how much impact it has on performance; if it's a problem, you > could always shut down the ALSA sound server instead. I have also tried shutting down the ALSA sound server without luck...this sucks. Anyway, thanks for trying to help! Regards, Lars Tobias Borsting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]