How to Free up the sound resource

Waqas Ahsan · 10-12-2006, 09:05 AM

Hi
i was wondering if there is any way to free up the sound resource. Any command that could maybe kill the processes using the sound card or block them.

mimithebrain · 10-15-2006, 12:26 AM

Use with caution:
fuser -k /dev/dsp

*edit* fuser is sometimes found in /sbin */edit*

FreeDoughnut · 10-15-2006, 12:32 AM

Or you could use DMIX and AOSS to let multiple processes access the card at once. Use the first result when you Google "dmix". Even though it's for Debian, there's some useful info there.

Waqas Ahsan · 10-15-2006, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by mimithebrain

Use with caution:
fuser -k /dev/dsp

*edit* fuser is sometimes found in /sbin */edit*

if i run fuser without the -k switch it returns no output and so it does not kill any processes either.

Quote:

Or you could use DMIX and AOSS to let multiple processes access the card at once. Use the first result when you Google "dmix". Even though it's for Debian, there's some useful info there.

i did setup my Mandriva to handle multiple sound streams and it works for Amarok, Mplayer KMPlayer. however firefox, amsn etc. need either artsdsp or aoss. aoss giver garbled sound and artsdsp says it needs a binary file and i cant for the life of me find the binary files they all run through shell scripts.

FreeDoughnut · 10-15-2006, 11:11 AM

I've never had a bad experience with aoss. I wonder what's going on.

mimithebrain · 10-15-2006, 03:49 PM

Firefox: Don't bother... Set arts to release the soundcard earlier, like 10 seconds instead of 60.
Amsn: there is an option for that. Just set to play the notifications with the corresponding arts application. (I think it's artsplay)

Waqas Ahsan · 10-16-2006, 03:49 AM

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Firefox: Don't bother... Set arts to release the soundcard earlier, like 10 seconds instead of 60.

i assume you are talking about the KDE sound system if so i have it disabled and still have this problem and still had it when i reduced its auto suspend time to 2 seconds. Otherwise please explain to me what you want me to do cause i am a newbie

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mimithebrain · 10-19-2006, 06:13 PM

It still doesn't work when arts is disabled? Um... I'm not sure there. Usually, the plugins that play the audio (say, flash), will write directly to the sound card.

If it still doesn't work, you can try playing flash animations using konqueror, it can wrap the flash plugin to play to arts.