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From: "Stephen Martin" <jyroscop@cotse.com>
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Geert,

I was having this specific problem when trying to use mplayer. What I did
was change the "Autosuspend if idle for" setting. It can be found in
Control Center -> Sounds & Multimedia -> Sound System -> aRTs tab (feels
vaguely like describing a windows problem :). I set mine at 5 seconds.
Your's will of coarse depend.

Stephen L. Martin

> Hello,
>
> I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD.  Sometimes it works, sometimes
> it
> doesn't, and then I get the following error message:
>
> /dev/dsp: Device busy
>
> but "lsof | grep dsp" yields nothing.
>
> Can anyone help me with this mystery?  :-)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> GH