F7 intel ich5, alsa, device busy

[Gerry Reno]

Mike Cronenworth wrote:
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: F7 intel ich5, alsa, device busy
> From: Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net>
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core 
> <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
> Date: 05/14/2008 02:34 PM
>> So I select reload audio drivers.  This of course requires a reboot 
>> and then we're good for another few minutes until the audio 
>> driver/device becomes busy again.
>
> The sound card config app is useless. Tell the user to ignore it.
>
> > 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.  ??

Regards,
Gerry