Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Gnomemeeting failed to work again

[Allan <amau sympatico ca>]

On Thursday 07 July 2005 13:19, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Julien
>
> Further to my late posting
>
> > The result is the same: gnomemeeting can't access
> > the audio device.
> >
> > The solution is to force artsd to release it's lock
> > on the device when
> > it's not playing.
>
> $ artsdsp timidity /path/to/midi_folder/
>
> Worked for me with sound output.
>

On SuSE I've been having the same problem and have found that the following 
command seems to work.  As root issue the command "/location of 
alsasound/alsasound restart" where location of alsasound on my system 
is /etc/init.d .  That seemed to work on my system but I've only tried it 
once.