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cc: Rob Lahaye <lahaye@snu.ac.kr>
Subject: Re: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy ?
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fstat | grep dsp
Also, take a look here (if you haven't already):
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Lahaye" <lahaye@snu.ac.kr>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 4:56 PM
Subject: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy ?


>
>
> 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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