[NTLUG:Discuss] win4lin and sound on Linux

[kbrannen@gte.net]

fredjame wrote:
> Mandrake 9.1
> Gnome 2.2
> Win4Lin 5.1.3
> Win98
> 
> It seems that whenever I start Win4Lin/Win98 I essentially loose sound 
> on the Linux/Gnome side, even after closing Win4Lin.  This even though 
> the Win98 thingy has good sound.  Turning the volume up in Gnome has no 
> effect.
> 
> Is there an easy way to reestablish sound on Linux/Gnome after the 
> Win4Lin/Win98 session, other than the reboot?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer.
> 

Sounds like it is running a sound daemon (artsd or something) that is grabbing 
the device and not letting go.  Do a "ps -ef" and look at all the processes; 
hopefully the one you want to kill will be obvious.  Or next time, do the ps 
before you start win4lin and save that to a file, then a ps after you finish 
with it and see what "extra" processes you have; you'll want to kill those 
(assuming you haven't started other shells and things you do want to keep. :-)

HTH,
Kevin