Bug#431227: KDE related?

[Mikael Magnusson]

Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I can run kiax here without any problem here, I don't have KDE libs
> installed. So I'm wondering if this has something to do with kde stuff on
> kiax :-???
> 
> Regards...

It may be caused by aRts or another sound daemon or application blocking 
the access to the OSS device. Sound cards can often only be opened by 
one application at a time.

Rebuilding kiax against current libiaxclient-dev will enable both OSS 
and ALSA sound drivers. But it probably won't solve the problem since 
OSS will always be the default driver regardless of whether any OSS 
device can be opened or not. I think this is a bug in PortAudio v19, and 
I'm looking into it.