[ale] Quake 3 - Red Hat 9

[Matthew Magee]

I have also seen this on my RH 9.0 machine. I logged on as another user, and
it "fixed itself" :)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dow Hurst" <dhurst at kennesaw.edu>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Quake 3 - Red Hat 9


> Who owns the device?  Most window managers switch the ownership to the
> current user logged in via the console.  If yours isn't then you could
> chown it to you and try Q3 again.  Sometimes just logging out and
> logging back in fixes sound.  Stupid solution, but Gnome and KDE still
> have plenty of bugs in my opinion.
> Dow
>
>
>
> Chris Coleman wrote:
>
> >Quake 3 was working fine but now it gives me the error /dev/dsp: Device
or resource busy.
> >
> >The persmissions on /dev/dsp are crw-------. The README file suggested
adding the read and write permissions for others. I tried that with no luck.
> >
> >Any suggestions? I really need to blow off some steam!
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Chris Coleman
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