stopping the sound server in PySol code -- how?

[Lynn]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:

> 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


Alas, this produces a "artsdsp works only for binaries" error.
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