#426: yet another Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busy
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Reporter: tetromino | Owner: lennart
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: daemon | Severity: normal
Resolution: invalid | Keywords:
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Comment (by tetromino):
Replying to [comment:1 lennart]:
> Some other application is apparently blocking access to the audio device
and hence PA cannot access it anymore. Use "fuser -v /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp*"
to find out which one it is.
Thank you, you are correct.
It turned out that Gnome was automatically starting esound (despite the
fact that I had configured it not to do so); making /usr/bin/esd into a
symlink to /usr/bin/esdcompat (on gentoo, it's "eselect esd set
PulseAudio") fixed the problem.
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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/426#comment:2>
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