On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Mary Honeycutt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm receiving messages in .xsession-errors, stating:
> "sox: unable to open /dev/audio. Device or resource busy."
>
> All sounds still play, however, everytime a sound file is run,
> a new error msg is generated.
>
> How can I find out what is using /dev/audio?
fuser /dev/audio
will display the PID (process ID) of the process that is using /dev/audio.
To find out what exactly that process is, enter
ps lw <pid>
where <pid> is the numerical PID displayed by fuser.
T
