On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 07:09:21AM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > 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
I have also been having this problem on 5.1-RELEASE. I posted about this a month or two ago and found that a couple other people were having the same problem, but nobody seemed to have a solution. My system exhibits this problem with either xmms or mp3blaster and it is seemingly random. Again, `fstat | grep dsp' reveals nothing. I am using blackbox and have no sound daemon of any sort. However, I am recently of the opinion that it may be a memory related issue. I have 256MB of RAM, but my machine is always hovering on being out of physical memory and usually dips into swap. I can consistently resolve the problem by closing, say, Mozilla Firebird to free up some memory. I then relaunch Firebird and am fine for while. Then, after a time, the problem comes back and I can either continually press the play button until it decides to play, or I can close some application. I have no idea whether this is actually some interesting issue relating to swap/memory and the sound device or just a co-incidence. In any case it seems to work. This is an awful workaround, but I don't know what else to do at the moment. Nathan -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49
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