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From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To: Jud <jud@operamail.com>, Ada Cheng <acheng@e-math.ams.org>,
	"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Subject: Re: A few questions before I recompile my kernel
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:40:40 -0500
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On Wednesday 06 February 2002 10:31 pm, Jud wrote:
> 2/6/2002 4:58:04 PM, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >I hope this fixes the problem, but I now have a different problem. The
> >device is always busy! So I get no sound at all, either from realplay
> >or from gnome (or from copying a file to /dev/dsp). lsof shows that
> >the device belongs to esd. Unfortunately, I can't find any doc on esd
> >(esound?) and I don't really have time to scrounge through the sources
> >at the moment.
> >
> >Hopefully things are moving in the right direction, at least. And,
> >it's possible that I'm doing something dumb that is causing the
> >device to show up as busy.
>
> If someone has a solution for this (esound occupying the device), I'd
> sure like to know.  It's keeping me from hearing soundtracks to DVD
> movies using Videolan (vlc) or ogle.

A solution:  Uninstall esound.  Or just kill the process.

There's probably a *better* solution, but these ought to work.

>
> Jud
>
>
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