From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 9 14:25:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (18.gibs5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.184.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8858037B420 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:25:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (pgh.nepinc.com [192.204.162.27]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.11.6/8.11.3) with SMTP id g09MmiE91461; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:48:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Message-Id: <200201092248.g09MmiE91461@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jim Durham To: Josh Blanchard , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:25:27 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Wednesday 09 January 2002 02:21 pm, Josh Blanchard wrote: > I have a Maestro 2E sound card. When I try to play any audio, I get > the error: /dev/dsp: Device busy. I can, of course, play audio as > root with no problem. I'm sure this is something simple. Could you > please point me in the right direction. > > Thanks in advance, Are you using KDE? If so, check your sound server settings. Set the timeout to a lower value. If not, try installing lsof and see what process has /dev/dsp open. -- Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message