quake 3 and tuxracer sound problems

TheCoop

neither of these games work with sound

in tuxracer i get the error message:
ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:791:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy
%%% tuxracer warning: Warning: Couldn't set 44100 Hz 16-bit audio
Reason: No available audio device

and quake 3 freezes when it try to starts the audio

i suspect its because something is refusing to give up control of the audio device, ive tried setting the idle timeout to 2 seconds in kde but that didnt work...
how do i work out which program is keeping audio control?
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rommel · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 6:19 am Post subject:

what kind of sound card?

delta407 · Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2002 6:15 pm Post subject:

Are you using a sound server? (arTs, etc.) Depends on your desktop environment, but if you are, disable it and try again.
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TheCoop · Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 9:57 am Post subject:

ive got a sound blaster 16pci (es1371 kernel module), and ive installed the alsa module (snd-ens1371)

kmix and kde works sound fine, something is not giving it up properly
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mlybarger · Guru Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 475

tuxracer only works in kde if i run it through artsdsp, is there a way to get it to work without running it through that? i have alsa installed and seems to work ok.

also, sometimes when i log into kde, i get device or resource busy on the sound, and am told that it's using a null device. this happens generally when xmms locks up and i log out and back in to kde.