stopping the sound server in PySol code -- how?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <iqAnd.69632$SW3.42915 at fed1read01>, Lynn wrote:

> I have a SuSe 9.1 linux box (although this isn't a new issue) with
> reasonably up to date everything.  When I run PySol, it grabs the sound
> system in a rude and complete way.  
> 
> I don't listen to sound and I NEED my sound system available even if PySol
> is running.

Do you have KDE and its sound server running?  Then you can try to start
PySol with the ``artsdsp`` wrapper.  The program intercepts access to the
low level sound devices in /dev/* and passes the data to the sound server.
See ``artsdsp --help`` for options.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch