From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 13 0:15:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4554237B400 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:15:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF89A43E3B for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 00:15:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsyphers@uchicago.edu) Received: from Yggdrasil (adsl-68-20-38-148.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68.20.38.148]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6D7FY35021137; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 02:15:35 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Syphers Reply-To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu To: Andrew Martin Subject: Re: /dev/dsp reports "device busy" but nothing using it Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 02:15:34 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <20020713022152.22036620.ugly@inhuman.org> In-Reply-To: <20020713022152.22036620.ugly@inhuman.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207130215.34890.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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