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From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org>
To: Alex Zivenko <twistfire@rambler.ru>
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Subject: Re: xmms - problem - how to fix?
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 02:24:30PM +0200, Alex Zivenko wrote:
> Hi!
> I have some problem with my xmms mm player. When I'm treing to listen some mp3's it gives me aN error, that I don't know how to fix. I have KDE 3.1 if you need this info ^)
> So here it is:
> bash-2.05b$ xmms
> /dev/dsp: Device busy
> /dev/dsp: Device busy
> /* with OSS driver */
> 
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Device busy
> 
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Device busy
> 
> ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Device busy
> /dev/dsp: Device busy


I have the same error sometimes when I use mpg123 or mplayer. I
don't have kde or any sound daemon like arts or esound. fstat does
not help too. I just have to wait for sometime for the device to
be available again, maybe a minute. Any ideas, welcome

Gautam