Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/35287
Comment: So ESD has been killed so I know it's not blocking access to the soundcard. Playing in Xmms using OSS or Alsa output produces the error "Couldn't open audio". Something else is hogging the soundcard. Maybe some process in gnome is blocking access to the sound card? This would also cause problems with ESD right? How can I find out which process has locked the sound card 'lsof'? -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
