F7 intel ich5, alsa, device busy

[Suren Karapetyan]

Mike Cronenworth wrote:
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: Re: F7 intel ich5, alsa, device busy
> From: Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net>
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora 
> <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
> Date: 05/14/2008 03:19 PM
> 
>> Mike Cronenworth wrote:
>>> > What is
>>> > the best option here for sound on this laptop?
>>> >
>>>
>>> 1) Use lsof on /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p to see if anything is grabbing onto it.
>>>
>>> 2) Upgrade to Fedora 9
>>> # rpm -Uhv fedora-release-9.0-2.noarch.rpm
>>> # yum update
>>>
>>> You may say "this is not an option" but there is no other way to get 
>>> an updated driver for your system unless you want to manually install 
>>> an F8 or F9 kernel (not recommended). Plus, PulseAudio (in F8 and now 
>>> F9) may help alleviate his problem.
>>>
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Gerry
>>> >
>>>
>> lsof find firefox got a hold of it.  I killed all his firefox windows 
>> and then the audio app starts working again.  So now, he can use his 
>> ip phone but he just can't browse while doing it.  ??
> 
> AFAIK Firefox should not be holding the sound driver open. Do they have 
> Flash installed? Visiting Youtube? Possibly a plugin like mplayerplugin?
> 
> Upgrading to F8 or F9 with PulseAudio would alleviate this.
> 
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gerry
>>
> 

Or if You can't/don't want to upgrade build a newer kernel with alsa 
which has dmix in it.