SuSEnixER
If I kill artsd, xmms operates properly. All other sound clients seem to operate properly after killing artsd, but most report that they do not have access to /dev/dsp if artsd is running ???
Only one application may have the device to itself at any given time
(leaving out cards with multiple inputs like SB Live!). So if artsd
has the sound device, no other app may access it.
As artsd, besides being a full featured synthesizer, is a sound
multiplexer, there are other ways of getting non artsd aware apps to
play along (pun intended :).
Instead of killing artsd, you could simply use the artsdsp wrapper.
This will make the app connect to artsd instead of directly to
/dev/dsp. You simply do 'artsdsp