[Hoary] strange sound problem

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Tue, 2005-10-05 at 02:59 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> I just upgraded Warty to HOary via apt, and now I am progressively, over
> the days, discovering things here and there that don't work.
> 
> Today's problem is with X-Plane..... 
> It was working perfectly in Warty, but in Hoary it won't play any
> sound :-/ The error it show in the terminal is :
> 
> "open /dev/[sound/]dsp: Device or resource busy"
> 
> I don't understand this, because I don't have any other program using
> sound ! Just X-Plane and Evolution.
> 
> Sound works fine and I can play music, videos etc, it's only X-Plane
> that complains, go figure ! :o(
> 
> I am not too clued about the sound system in Ubuntu/Linux, however
> reading this list, I gathered that it's complex, possibly very
> troublesome, and that it got changed from Warty to Hoary.
> 
> So unless someone knows his onions and can help me.... I will have to
> "quad-boot"... WinXP, Warty, Hoary, and Breezy ! Jeez, my hard disks are
> getting crowdy ! ;-P
> 

in my case some sounds problems going from Warty to Hoary (mainly with
RealPlayer) were solved with this recipe:

*) in /etc/esound/esd.conf, set auto_spawn=1   (which in my case was my
default in Warty but not in Hoary)

*) logout and then login again.


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