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Date:      Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:56:14 +0900
From:      Rob Lahaye <lahaye@snu.ac.kr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy ?
Message-ID:  <3F65001E.2010607@snu.ac.kr>

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Hi,

How can I find out which app. keeps /dev/dsp busy?

Without any other sound application running, I got this message when
starting mplayer or realaudio. Somehow the system got muddled up.

After some random trial and error, I finally discovered that everything
came back to normal when I killed xscreensaver.
So for some reason xscreensaver kept /dev/dsp busy.

Is there a command to find out directly which app. keeps /dev/dsp busy?

Thanks,
Rob.




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