[vox-tech] Sound Problem

[Rod Roark]

Hi Bob,

You might try going into the KDE Control Center, select=20
Sound and Sound Server, and turning off the sound server.
Or if it's off, turn it on.  Frankly the artsd server is=20
kind of a mystery to me, very poorly documented.

It could also be that some lock file in /tmp was left when=20
Konqueror crashed, so deleting stuff there might fix it.

-- Rod

On Wednesday 13 November 2002 10:58 am, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> I just installed RealPlayer8 and it's screwed up the sound in my system=
=2E=20
> The one thing I can still do is play the CD player okay and listen to
> music. However, there is now now sound when I start or leave KDE.  Also
> RealPlayer did not do it's startup sound.  I have deleted RealPlayer.  =
This
> problem happened after a crash using Kongueror when I was trying to lis=
ten
> to a radio station.  I also get some static now when logging onto Linux=
,
> and clicking on icons in KDE.  I get these two error messages:
>
> "Sound server warning message:
> Can't set real-time scheduling priority.
> You need to run artswrapper as root or
> setuid root. This means that you will
> likely not be able to produce acceptable
> sound (i.e. without clicks and breaks)."
>
>
> "Sound server informational message:
> sound server suspended"
>
> When I log on as root and type "artswrapper" I get this message:
>
> ">> running as realtime process now (priority 50)
> /tmp/mcop-bob is not owned by user"
>
> If I type "artswrapper" when I am not root I get this message:
>
> "Error while initializing the sound driver:
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Resource temporarily unavailable)"
>
> Any ideas as to fix this?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Bob