Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 02:15:34 -0500 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> To: Andrew Martin <ugly@inhuman.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/dsp reports "device busy" but nothing using it Message-ID: <200207130215.34890.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020713022152.22036620.ugly@inhuman.org> References: <20020713022152.22036620.ugly@inhuman.org>
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On Saturday 13 July 2002 01:21 am, Andrew Martin wrote: > Hello, > > I was playing audio with mplayer and when it finished, mplayer closed as > usual, however when trying to play something else I now receive "device > busy" messages about /dev/dsp. I do _NOT_ have esd or any other sound > daemon running (checked ps ax), nor do I have any other app that plays > audio running. In addition, grep'ing fstat for the inode of /dev/dsp > gives no results. I get the error with any app, including just cat'ing > files to /dev/dsp. I don't see how /dev/dsp could possibly be still in > use. I just got this a little while ago on my system, too. A workaround is to use a different device, e.g. give mplayer an "-ao oss:/dev/dsp0.1" option. Obviously this is not an answer to your question, but it is an effective workaround. Also, this question is more appropriate for questions@ than stable@. -David -- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand... Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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