/dev/dsp

[Karl Larsen]

Rickey Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 08:05 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>>       
>> lsof -f -- /dev/dsp
>>     
>
> You mught check to make sure your device isn't running full duplex...
> that will make it busy as hell and eat up ALOT of cpu under alsa. Then
> dink with your alsa settings ie: give it more priority, more cache, etc.
> I used to get such messages, but I haven't seen one in awhile. Make sure
> you've updated all your sound-related rpms. Good Luck... I call this
> trouble shooting with a shotgun, Ric
>
>
>   
    Hello Ric, I am not sure what is going on. I'm on FC5 and the thing 
was set up just a few weeks ago so things should be new. Since the 
application runs fine on earlier red hat systems I think it's something 
new that is the problem.

Karl