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Subject: Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:54 pm, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD.  Sometimes it works, sometimes
> it doesn't, and then I get the following error message:
>
> /dev/dsp: Device busy
>
> but "lsof | grep dsp" yields nothing.
>
> Can anyone help me with this mystery?  :-)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> GH

I dont know if this is the problem but it sounds similar to one I had 
recently.  Sound was working then I portupgraded some things.  Sound was a 
bit iffy for a while until I updated a bunch of other stuff, actually 
everything.  It worked ok after that.  Now running 5.2.