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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>it looks like Mandrake 9.1 has OSS
stock, which was working alright for me (besides only being allowed 1 program to
use the device at a time) but i'm running into problems getting programs like
ogle to work, they want ALSA. also, i'm told ALSA has better sound quality
anyhow. been beating my head against this machine for almost a week
now. anyways...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>i get a '/dev/dsp device or
resource busy' error message all the time now. a 'fuser -v /dev/dsp' shows
nothing. 'top' shows that aplay is hogging resources on programs that try
to wait for the device to become un-busy (like mplayer). aplay uses 90%+
for awhile and then sometimes it kicks in (mplayer starts working and plays the
video file normally) after awhile (sometimes mplayer sits there for over 30
minutes before it starts up!). mythtv just dies 90% of the time and
miraculously works 10% with no changes at all in the environment.
when it does work i get these nasty vertical lines with my latest IVTV CVS, but
that's another story.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>anyone have any clues for me?
i've checked permissions (755 on /dev/dsp and /dev/sound/*), i've renamed
/usr/bin/artsd and /usr/bin/artsdsp because i've read that they can cause
problems. i do not need a bi-directional card (although it should be, i
would imagine) because i'm using a pvr-250.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>Mandrake 9.1 / 2.4.21-0.25mdk
kernel</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>Celeron 500 / 256MB</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>PVR-250</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size=2>Soundblaster PCI128 (ens1371
chip)</FONT></DIV>
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