[mythtv-users] MythMusic works great, but MythTV = /dev/dsp busy

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 06 June 2003 12:43 pm, Perry, Aaron wrote:
> Hi, I've been having problems with MythTV sound.  I get errors about the
> device (/dev/dsp) being busy.  It was sporadic for a while, but now I
> can't seem to get any live TV sound at all (and I'm finally integrating
> this system with my entertainment center, great timing!)
>
> I've scoured the forum and found reports of similar problems and causes
> but I cannot find the solution.  It appears that this is likely because
> of the KDE sound server, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to turn
> it off.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

I'm a big fan of just deleting the artsd binary and completely turning it off.  
=)  I've had it take over my machine a couple times (endlessly spawning 
copies of itself), and otherwise cause problems.

Isaac