Re: [Plib-users] sound in plib

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Guihua Yang wrote:

> The OS is  linux redhat 9.0, also I installed
> mesa 6.0( possibly I shouldn't install this since I
> have Geforce 4, which has hardware support for
> opengl),  freeglut.

Yeah - don't install Mesa - get the nVidia drivers
from www.nvidia.org - your graphics will go several
HUNDRED times faster!

> When I play a sound file in linux, it works fine. But
> when I ran plib 1.8.1 example and try sound example, I
> got this error: 
> 
> slDSP: open: Device or resource busy
> WARNING: slScheduler: soundcard init failed.

I suspect that you have some kind of sound deamon
installed - several windowing systems install them.
They sit there, hogging the sound card, mixing incoming
audio from the windowing system and locking out other
programs.

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