Any sound daemons running?
Now we check if /dev/dsp is being used by any sound daemon. For this you need the program “lsof”. If you dont have it installed you can get it from your distribution cd’s. Now issue “lsof | grep dsp”. This will list all aplications using the sound, idealy you shouldn’t get any ouput, else we need to get rid of that daemon. Getting rid of the sound daemon If you got output in then you most probably have arts running. If something else is listed as programme name you have to get rid of that. Disabling arts Go to the KDE control center, hit search and type “artsd” this should find a hit “Sound System”. In the dialogue you deselect start arts at KDE startup. Then you restart KDE and check if arts is still running. It should be gone. Disabling other daemons You can always resort to killing the processes “killall yxz”, but the better way is to find where you can set it to not start it. Finding the process name of your game For the following steps we need to know what the process is called th
