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From: Rob Lahaye <lahaye@snu.ac.kr>
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Subject: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy ?
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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.