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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:49:59 +0100
From:      Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>
To:        "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: restoring the audio device (pcm) when "already in use"
Message-ID:  <3C178AB7.75CAE176@gmx.de>

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Forwarding from a private response:
BTW, Matthew ist completely right, IMHO.

> > I use pcm, and every application (well, at least those that can
> > send messages) tell me that the audio device is already in use
> > --which is wrong.  How do I figure out what has wrongly locked
> > it?
>
> lsof|grep dsp
>
> suspect candidate #1: KDE's artsd
> Am I right?

The KDE artsd daemon is *very* ill-behaved in this regard, but that 
can usually be solved with a hearty "killall artsd".
- -- 
Matthew Graybosch
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