xmms - problem - how to fix?

[Dinesh Nair]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Nathan Kinkade wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:09:21AM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:24:30PM +0200, Alex Zivenko wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > I have some problem with my xmms mm player. When I'm treing to
> > > listen some mp3's it gives me aN error, that I don't know how to
> > > fix. I have KDE 3.1 if you need this info ^) So here it is:
> > > bash-2.05b$ xmms
> > > /dev/dsp: Device busy
> > > /dev/dsp: Device busy
> > > /* with OSS driver */

what does 'cat /dev/sndstat' say ? if you have a number of virtual sound
channels, you can use /dev/dsp0.0 for artsd (kde), /dev/dsp0.1 for xmms
and the like, until the max number of channels.

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