Sound card blocked/being used in some manner

grimhammer · 03-22-2007, 06:37 AM

Newbie here, trying to learn.
My problem is the following:
After installing the drivers for the Intel Wireless PRO2200 laptop wireless eth card, the firmware for the same and the ieee80211 subsystem I keep getting an error in XMMS that in essence says that the sound card is busy, configured wrong or that the wrong output plugin is selected.
I haven't changed any settings myself so I assume that the sound card is busy. Is there any way I can figure out what program is using the sound card or any way to free it up, regardless of what program is using it?

Help much appreciated.

grimhammer · 03-22-2007, 07:43 AM

well apparently I ain't got no /dev/dsp, just upgraded to 2.6.8 from 2.4.27, might have missed the sound config in the kernel, was listed as module in menuconfig. Supposed to be like that or what can I do to fix it? recompile the kernel with Device Drivers->Sound->Sound card support enabled instead of module? New to this business with compiling kernels

jay73 · 03-22-2007, 02:46 PM

mknod /dev/dsp c 14 3

That should (re)create /dev/dsp

Cage47 · 03-27-2007, 09:55 AM

I have this happen too. Is not a problem with Debian but with xmms. Problem is that it wants full access to your sound card but if you have system sounds on like in kde with arts xmms doesn't like it. you could instead use mplayer. That's how I get around it. Or use icewm instead of kde.