ALSA problem`

[Trent Shipley]

On Friday 2007-01-05 18:34, Michael Havens wrote:
> You know..... I start my computer and sound works for a bit.
> then  it errore out in my open terminal:
> 1- ALSA: underrun, at least 0ms.
> 2- couldn't find a suitible web browser!
> 3- Set BROWSER environment variable to your desired browser.
> 4- ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:819:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave.
> 5- ALSA snd_pcm_open error: Device or resource busy
>
> to get it to work I have to kill konqueror....
>
> what to do what to do?

I too am having sonic frustrations.

I am running KDE 3 something, and after browsing the web I have discovered 
that ARTS, KDE's sound player, hogs all the sound resources.  You can set 
ARTS to time-out using the sound controls in the KDE Control Center.