Subject: Re: "/dev/sound: Device busy" with timidity and KDE
To: Thierry Lacoste <th.lacoste@wanadoo.fr>
From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@gmx.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/06/2005 17:38:00
Thierry Lacoste schrieb:
> $ timidity ipanema.mid
> /dev/sound: Device busy
> Couldn't open NetBSD audio device (`d')
>
> I guess this is because KDE opens /dev/sound
> because timidity works fine with twm.
>
> Any tips?
>
> Regards,
> Thierry.
>
>
Yes, you can switch off/change KDE's standart audio device (OSS or
something, I don't exactly know anymore). But that helped for me.
Something in the KDE sound settings. Just poke around there.
Z.