Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy

2005-12-02 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H
start to get "Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy" but with fstat I get : toshiba# fstat|grep dsp toshiba# What do I do?? Thanks, Tuc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: /dev/dsp "device busy" - one possible solution

2004-02-08 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Monday 09 February 2004 01:37, Mike Harding wrote: > I was playing around with kde 3.2 and a crashing artsd was locking up > my sound system - any further attempts to use sound from gnome or xmms > or anything failed with > > /dev/dsp - device busy > > messages. fstat an

/dev/dsp "device busy" - one possible solution

2004-02-08 Thread Mike Harding
I was playing around with kde 3.2 and a crashing artsd was locking up my sound system - any further attempts to use sound from gnome or xmms or anything failed with /dev/dsp - device busy messages. fstat and lsof showed nothing holding the device. A reboot would fix it, but why reboot FreeBSD

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-27 Thread Melvyn Sopacua
On Sunday 25 January 2004 15:25, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > Unfortunately, when I click Ok, KDE wants to restart the Arts daemon, and > then, tragically, it complains dat /dev/dsp is busy... I think artsd just > doesn't "free" the device when it is killed manually, and therefore it > won't restart

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-26 Thread anubis
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:54 pm, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes > it doesn't, and then I get the following error message: > > /dev/dsp: Device busy > > but "lsof | grep dsp" yiel

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-25 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Sunday 25 January 2004 14:42, Stephen Martin wrote: > Geert, > > I was having this specific problem when trying to use mplayer. What I did > was change the "Autosuspend if idle for" setting. It can be found in > Control Center -> Sounds & Multimedia -> Sound System -> aRTs tab (feels > vaguely l

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-25 Thread Stephen Martin
I set mine at 5 seconds. Your's will of coarse depend. Stephen L. Martin > Hello, > > I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes > it > doesn't, and then I get the following error message: > > /dev/dsp: Device busy > > but "

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-25 Thread Daniela
On Sunday 25 January 2004 09:51, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > On Sunday 25 January 2004 02:46, George Vagner wrote: > > if your dual booting i found you must turn off power before you boot into > > bsd > > something with windows on a "restart" dont fully reset the soundcard on > > mine. > > toshiba sat

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-25 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Sunday 25 January 2004 02:46, George Vagner wrote: > if your dual booting i found you must turn off power before you boot into > bsd > something with windows on a "restart" dont fully reset the soundcard on > mine. > toshiba satellite S2805-401 P3 700 with yamaha 741 soundcard. No Windows invol

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 24 January 2004 8:19 pm, Dorin H. wrote: >--- Geert Hendrickx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. >> Sometimes it works, sometimes it >> doesn't, and then I get the following error messa

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread George Vagner
PROTECTED]> To: "Geert Hendrickx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 8:19 PM Subject: Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy > > --- Geert Hendrickx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a problem pl

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Dorin H.
--- Geert Hendrickx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. > Sometimes it works, sometimes it > doesn't, and then I get the following error message: > > > /dev/dsp: Device busy > > but "lsof | grep

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Cordula's Web
> > > /dev/dsp: Device busy > > esd is the culprit. > But esd is not running... I checked it with ps. I'm having the same problem with mpg123, which uses esd: $ ps ax|grep esd $ mpg123 somefile.mp3 /dev/dsp: Device busy audio: Device busy $ ps ax|grep esd 11041

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Saturday 24 January 2004 16:15, Michael Clark wrote: > Do you have a onboard sound card as well as a pci sound card? > > I use to run into this when I forgot to disable my onboard sound in bios. I don't think so. It's a laptop (Toshiba), and I doubt they'd put a second sound card in it. I

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Saturday 24 January 2004 16:00, Cordula's Web wrote: > > /dev/dsp: Device busy > > esd is the culprit. But esd is not running... I checked it with ps. Besides, "esdplay foo.wav" gives the same error. GH -- power

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Cordula's Web
> /dev/dsp: Device busy esd is the culprit. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

/dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Hello, I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and then I get the following error message: /dev/dsp: Device busy but "lsof | grep dsp" yields nothing. Can anyone help me with this mystery? :-) Thanks in advance, GH

Re: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy ?

2003-09-14 Thread Mike Maltese
4:56 PM Subject: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy ? > > > Hi, > > How can I find out which app. keeps /dev/dsp busy? > > Without any other sound application running, I got this message when > starting mplayer or realaudio. Somehow the system got mudd

Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy ?

2003-09-14 Thread Rob Lahaye
Hi, How can I find out which app. keeps /dev/dsp busy? Without any other sound application running, I got this message when starting mplayer or realaudio. Somehow the system got muddled up. After some random trial and error, I finally discovered that everything came back to normal when I killed

Re: /dev/dsp: device busy

2003-09-01 Thread mpd
> > > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:54:34AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: > > > I'm using Freebsd 4.8 and mozilla 1.4. Whenever I go to google.com or yahoo.com > > > to > search for > > > something, I get /dev/dsp: Device busy. I can get to any url, but c

Re: /dev/dsp: device busy

2003-09-01 Thread Monah Baki
m or yahoo.com to search for > > something, I get /dev/dsp: Device busy. I can get to any url, but can't seem to > > search for > > anything (cnn.com, in the dialog box to getting my home town weather, will not > > work). _

Re: /dev/dsp: device busy

2003-09-01 Thread Alexander Farber
Do you maybe run KDE and arts which blocks /dev/dsp? On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:54:34AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: > I'm using Freebsd 4.8 and mozilla 1.4. Whenever I go to google.com or yahoo.com to > search for > something, I get /dev/dsp: Device busy. I can get to any url, but

/dev/dsp: device busy

2003-09-01 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, I'm using Freebsd 4.8 and mozilla 1.4. Whenever I go to google.com or yahoo.com to search for something, I get /dev/dsp: Device busy. I can get to any url, but can't seem to search for anything (cnn.com, in the dialog box to getting my home town weather, will not work).