in-line :- On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: > shirish शिरीष wrote: > >> $ aplay -D plughw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav >> aplay: main:682: audio open error: Device or resource busy >> >> Now I don't know why aplay is still giving me this error. > > If you were using pulseaudio, I'd suggest using pasuspender. Is jackd > running? If not, is there any corresponding "dmesg" output?
There is no pulseaudio installed (it was installed before I had issues) nor is there any jackd. $ aptitude search pulseaudio p gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio - GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio p gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio - GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio p libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio - Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and PulseAudio options) p liquidsoap-plugin-pulseaudio - audio streaming language -- Pulseaudio plugin p projectm-pulseaudio - projectM PulseAudio module p pulseaudio - PulseAudio sound server p pulseaudio-dbg - PulseAudio sound server (debugging symbols) p pulseaudio-esound-compat - PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer p pulseaudio-esound-compat-dbg - PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer (debugging symbols) p pulseaudio-module-bluetooth - Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server p pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-dbg - Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server (debugging symbo p pulseaudio-module-gconf - GConf module for PulseAudio sound server p pulseaudio-module-gconf-dbg - GConf module for PulseAudio sound server (debugging symbols) p pulseaudio-module-hal - HAL to udev transitioning module for PulseAudio sound server p pulseaudio-module-hal-dbg - HAL module for PulseAudio sound server debugging symbols p pulseaudio-module-jack - jackd modules for PulseAudio sound server p pulseaudio-module-jack-dbg - jackd modules for PulseAudio sound server (debugging symbols) p pulseaudio-module-lirc - lirc module for PulseAudio sound server p pulseaudio-module-lirc-dbg - lirc module for PulseAudio sound server (debugging symbols) p pulseaudio-module-raop - RAOP module for PulseAudio sound server p pulseaudio-module-raop-dbg - RAOP module for PulseAudio sound server (debugging symbols) p pulseaudio-module-x11 - X11 module for PulseAudio sound server p pulseaudio-module-x11-dbg - X11 module for PulseAudio sound server (debugging symbols) p pulseaudio-module-zeroconf - Zeroconf module for PulseAudio sound server p pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-dbg - Zeroconf module for PulseAudio sound server (debugging symbol p pulseaudio-utils - Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server p pulseaudio-utils-dbg - PulseAudio command line tools (debugging symbols) $ aptitude search jack p alsaplayer-jack - PCM player designed for ALSA (JACK output module) p azr3-jack - drawbar organ simulator p dssi-host-jack - Example of DSSI host p fxcyberjack - Graphical diagnostics and maintenance tool for Reiner SCT Cyb p gjacktransport - access to the JACK's transport mechanism as touchable slider p jack - Rip and encode CDs with one command p jack-capture - program for recording soundfiles with jack v jack-daemon - p jack-keyboard - Virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK MIDI p jack-mixer - JACK Audio Mixer p jack-rack - LADSPA effects "rack" for JACK p jack-stdio - program to pipe audio-data from and to JACK p jack-tools - various JACK tools: dl, record, scope, osc, plumbing, udp, pl p jackd - JACK Audio Connection Kit (default server package) v jackd-firewire - p jackd1 - JACK Audio Connection Kit (server and example clients) p jackd1-firewire - JACK Audio Connection Kit (FFADO backend) p jackd2 - JACK Audio Connection Kit (server and example clients) p jackd2-firewire - JACK Audio Connection Kit (FFADO and FreeBoB backends) p jackeq - routes and manipulates audio from/to multiple sources p jackmeter - a basic command line meter for the JACK audio system p jacksum - computes checksums, CRCs and message digests p jacktrip - A System for High-Quality Audio Network Performance p liballegro4.2-plugin-jack - JACK audio plugin for the Allegro library p libbio2jack0 - oss/alsa to jack porting lib - runtime files p libbio2jack0-dev - oss/alsa to jack porting lib - development files p libbjack-ocaml - OCaml blocking interface to jack audio connection kit p libbjack-ocaml-dev - OCaml blocking interface to jack audio connection kit v libbjack-ocaml-dev-emzn2 - v libbjack-ocaml-dev-errl5 - v libbjack-ocaml-emzn2 - v libbjack-ocaml-errl5 - p libifd-cyberjack6 - REINER SCT cyberJack USB chipcard reader user space driver v libjack-0.116 - p libjack-dev - JACK Audio Connection Kit (development files) v libjack-dev-session - i A libjack-jackd2-0 - JACK Audio Connection Kit (libraries) p libjack-jackd2-dev - JACK Audio Connection Kit (development files) p libjack0 - JACK Audio Connection Kit (libraries) v libjack0.100.0-dev - p libjackrabbit-java - content repository implementation (JCR API) p libjackson-json-java - streaming fast powerful standard conformant json processor in p libjackson-json-java-doc - standard conformant json processor in java - API documentatio p libwine-jack - Windows API implementation - JACK sound module p liquidsoap-plugin-jack - audio streaming language -- JACK plugin p projectm-jack - projectM JackAudio module p pulseaudio-module-jack - jackd modules for PulseAudio sound server p pulseaudio-module-jack-dbg - jackd modules for PulseAudio sound server (debugging symbols) p qjackctl - User interface for controlling the JACK sound server p qjackrcd - Qt4 application to record JACK server outputs p silentjack - silence detector for the JACK audio system p slv2-jack - Jack support for LV2 plugins p snd-gtk-jack - Sound file editor (GTK+ user interface - JACK) p tuxguitar-jack - tuxguitar plugin for sound playback using JACKD p vlc-plugin-jack - Jack audio plugins for VLC p xmms2-plugin-jack - XMMS2 - JACK output p zynjacku - JACK based host for LV2 synths and LV2 plugins IIUC, aplay does not need any of the packages to work. I just want first the basic sounds to play. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org