<tt>Hello, if i disable ESD, aplay and other aplications begin to sound, but</tt><br>
<tt>then Gnome events doesn't sound. I am sure than i had ESD activated and</tt><br>
<tt>other aplications could sound in previous Debian Lenny/Sid development</tt><br>
<tt>state, in addiction i have comfirmed that in others distributions (for</tt><br>
<tt>example Ubuntu 7.10), i have activated ESD and both Gnome events and</tt><br>
<tt>other aplications sound without problems, because this, i think that</tt><br>
<tt>there is a bug in Debian.</tt><br>
<tt>I have right now updated Debian Sid with Gnome 2.20 and the problem</tt><br>
<tt>continues.</tt><br>
<tt>Thanks for your atention.</tt>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/10/3, Loïc Minier <<a href="mailto:lool@dooz.org">lool@dooz.org</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007, Rafael wrote:<br>> When gnome session is started, audio device is locked, and meny aplications cannot play sounds, only Gnome and Gnome aplicatios emit sounds.<br>> For example, before start Gnome, i can play a WAV audio file with aplay command, but after gnome is started i cannot play sound with aplay, in gnome and in tty console i
<br>> obtain this error:<br>> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave<br>> aplay: main:545: audio open error: Device or resource busy.<br>> The result is that many other aplications as aMSN, amarok (this give also Device busy error), and videos from youtube doesn't sound, but media files played with totem
<br>> sound, and also sound tests located in System -> Preferences -> Sound.<br><br> Did you enable the sound server in GNOME? If yes, then you should<br> configure your application to use "Esound" as audio output.
<br> Alternatively, you can disable the sound server and configure your<br> applications to use "Alsa" directly.<br><br> Another option which I'm using is to setup PulseAudio, that works like<br> esound and supports alsa apps as well, but requires more work to setup.
<br><br>--<br>Loïc Minier<br></blockquote></div><br>