On Tuesday 09 January 2001 04:08 am, you wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Laurent Duperval wrote:
> > On 8 Jan, Chris wrote:
> > > I have a cron wake up call set for each morning, monday to friday,
> > > using mpg123. Friday it worked just fine. Then this morning (monday),
> > > there was no wake up call. Log shows an error from mpg123 - audio:
> > > device or resource busy. I have no idea what could be the source of
> > > this problem. Xmms and record both work fine, and anyhow mpg123 worked
> > > last week.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any ideas on what could be the cause or (almost as good)
> > > any solutions?
> > >
> > > yoroshiku
> >
> > Possibly that you have a flash animation or realaudio running or some
> > other type of process that uses the sound card.
> >
> > L
>
> No, nothing is using the card. At least nothing that shows up with
> 'ps -aux'. Tried it with XMMS on (not playing) and closed down, but no go
> either way. I tried restarting the xserver, thinking that would kill off
> any rogue process x processes (like realplayer, etc) that might be
> running. Still no luck. Also, over the weekend I didn't use realplayer or
> anything sound related except xmms.
>
> yoroshiku
Try unchecking the box that says to run the sound server on boot. That frees
the resource, I think.
