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[Larry Grover]

musicman wrote:
> Sorry to be a pain  - I've just tried Kaffine and it got most of the
> way, but I got an error msg:
> 
> "xine message - audio output unavailable: device is busy. ()"
> 
> any ideas on that one....I must admit that I have picked this computer
> up on the cheap, and didn't look inside, I just ran with the hardware
> auto detect...and it seems to have failed with the audio - output
> _and_ input...although I get broken glass sounds occasionally, so I
> presume some audio is working somewhere...!


A couple of things to check first:  Are you getting any audio at all, 
from any application or the kde desktop itself?  Are you running the 
arts sound daemon?

Here's how I set up my system.  In the KDE control center, under 
"Sound & Multimedia" -> "Sound system" -> "Hardware" tab, I set the 
audio device to ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture).  On the 
"General" tab, I made sure that "Enable the Sound System" was selected 
(checked), and that I was able to hear a sound when I pushed the "Test 
Sound" button (if you don't get a sound, then check your mixer 
settings, or try a different setting under "Hardware").

If you don't get anywhere at all with this, then check to see if your 
system is loading the right module for your sound card.  If you don't 
know how to do this, ask back here (or even better, ask on the 
ubuntu-users list, which seems to have many more subscribers than this 
list) for help.

Once I knew the sound system was working, I fired up kaffeine and it 
just worked.

If the sound system is working, but kaffeine isn't, you can try 
changing settings in kaffeine:  under the "settings" menu -> "xine 
Enginge Parameters" -> "audio", try changing the "Audiodriver" setting 
(I have it set to "auto", but there are several other options 
including oss, alsa, arts, esd, etc).

Regards,
Larry