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I am using KDE3 with aRts running and I occasionally get a “/dev/audio Resource temporarily unavailable” error message. What can I do?

April 26, 2017Arts audio dev Error kde3 Resource running temporarily

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I am using KDE3 with aRts running and I occasionally get a “/dev/audio Resource temporarily unavailable” error message. What can I do?

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What is happening is that the aRts sound server is holding the /dev/audio device open and not closing it. To solve this problem run the KDE3 Control Server and choose the Sound Server from the Sound tree branch. Next, there are two possible solutions. The best and most robust solution is to disable the line “Start aRts soundserver on KDE startup.” An alternate solution which is almost as good is to set the “Autosuspend if idle for” line to zero seconds. This will force aRts to release the /dev/audio immediately when it is no longer in use.