From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 11 8:55:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7AB737B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 08:55:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.irbs.com (mx2.irbs.com [65.77.21.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9B643E88 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 08:55:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@psydeshow.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.irbs.com [127.0.0.1]) by mx2.irbs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C26A67820D; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:55:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psydeshow.org (unknown [66.65.121.162]) by mx2.irbs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45DE678217; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:55:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3DA6F450.1040500@psydeshow.org> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:54:56 -0400 From: Chris Snyder User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021009 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Banning Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dsp busy error References: <20021011111805.A23160@skytrackercanada.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by Sophos Sweep 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 David Banning wrote: >When I try and use the sound port, I get this error; > >/dev/dsp: Device busy >audio: Device busy > >I could restart the machine, but I wondered how I would go about fixing >this without restarting the machine. > > I had this problem under 4.6.2, never did find a way to fix it other than restart. Upgrade to STABLE, it should go away. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message