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 and lsof showed nothing holding

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 yields nothing. Can anyone help me with this mystery?

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 involved

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 satellite

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-25 Thread Stephen Martin
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 like describing a windows problem :). I set mine at 5 seconds. Your's

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 like

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]

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 -- powered by FreeBSD/Postfix/KMail ___

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 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 ?? Ss 0:00.14 esd -terminate

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 dsp yields nothing. Can anyone help me with this

Re: /dev/dsp: Device busy

2004-01-24 Thread George Vagner
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 playing sounds in FreeBSD. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and then I get the following

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 message: /dev/dsp: Device busy but lsof | grep dsp yields

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 can't seem to

Re: /dev/dsp: device busy

2003-09-01 Thread Monah Baki
I'm running windowmaker On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:46:52 +, Alexander Farber wrote 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

Re: /dev/dsp: device busy

2003-09-01 Thread mpd
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:39:59AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: I'm running windowmaker Try installing the sysutils/lsof port, and run lsof | grep dsp On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:46:52 +, Alexander Farber wrote Do you maybe run KDE and arts which blocks /dev/dsp? On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at