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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:11:39 +0200
From:      Petre Bandac <petre@kgb.ro>
To:        cpghost@cordula.ws
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sound question
Message-ID:  <200311132111.39632.petre@kgb.ro>
In-Reply-To: <200311131904.hADJ4pfU015701@fw.farid-hajji.net>
References:  <200311132059.07486.petre@kgb.ro> <200311131904.hADJ4pfU015701@fw.farid-hajji.net>

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[petre@kgb]$ ps -ax | grep esd                                                
~
80418  ??  Ss     2:56.38 esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 5
84843  p5  S+     0:00.01 egrep esd


so if I kill -9 the esd process, icq will start emitting sounds ?

petre


On Thursday 13 November 2003 21:04 Anno Domini, Cordula's Web wrote using one 
of his keyboards:
> > play: /dev/dsp: Device busy
>
> Perhaps esd is running and grabbing the sound device?
>
> I have a similar problem with mpg123. Calling mpg123
> multiple times (e.g. in a loop with a shell script)
> until it works is an acceptable work-around for me:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> until (mpg123 "$1")
> do
>     sleep 1;
> done
>
> Of course, a solution would be better than a work-arond :)

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