On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 07:20, Brian Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > I sent a similar post to the sound list a week or so ago, but got no > responses, so I thought I'd try my hand here. > > How do you go about restarting sound? My problem is that if I'm using any > application that accesses sound (XMMS, MPlayer, Videolan, etc.) and it > happens to crash, no other application can access sound. I've done > searching, but not come up with a way to resolve the situation. You need to determine what app has control of the sound card. The easiest way is to run: For example, on my system: $ lsof | grep dsp gaim 3705 dkelson 15w CHR 14,3 32928 /dev/dsp $ No you know the culprit. You could kill it. What is the long term solution? 1. Get a sound card and driver that allows /dev/dsp to be opened multiple times. The Sound Blaster Live card(s) and the "emu10k" driver allows this. Other cards do as well. 2. If you don't have such luck on the sound card, run a sound card arbitration and mixing deamon such as ESD (normally for GNOME apps) or ARTS (KDE) and configure all your sound producing applications to send sound through that daemon. Dax Kelson Guru Labs -- Phoebe-list mailing list Phoebe-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list