From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 8:50: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B6D37B416 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 08:50:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wh-wurm.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id fBCGo0cf029801 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:50:01 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3C178AB7.75CAE176@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:49:59 +0100 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: restoring the audio device (pcm) when "already in use" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://www.starbreaker.net GnuPG Key ID: 0x7D488659 "Sex, Unix, and rock 'n roll" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message