/dev/dsp

John Wendel john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil
Wed May 3 00:02:21 UTC 2006


Karl Larsen wrote:
>    I'm back to FC5 and here is what I see is this:
> 
> [karl at k5di ~]$ ls -al /dev/dsp
> crw------- 1 karl root 14, 3 May  2 17:23 /dev/dsp
> [karl at k5di ~]$ gmfsk &
> [1] 2757
> [karl at k5di ~]$ *** opensnd: open: /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy ***
> 
> The bottom writing is from my application which see's this /dev/dsp is 
> being used by some other application. But I can't figure out what it is.
> 
> 
> Karl
> 


Are you running the gnome or kde sound daemons, "esd" or "arts" ? Try 
running "/usr/sbin/lsof | grep -i dsp", it should show the bugger.

Regards,

John




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