On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:51:33 -0600, Russ Cook wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 16:30:44 -0600, Russ Cook wrote:
[...] >>> Trying to run speaker-test gives a series of errors of the form: >>> Alsa lib pcm_dmix.c:866:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave >>> Playback open error: -16,Device or resource busy >>> >> >> OK, so some process might be blocking the sound devices; most probably a >> sound daemon. (Are you running Gnome or KDE?) Post the output of this: >> >> lsof -w | egrep 'snd|dsp' >> >> > Yes, I am running Gnome. The of output of running > lsof -w | egrep 'snd|dsp' is > esd 3912 russ 5w CHR 14,3 6406 /dev/dsp > > My user name is 'russ', and I am a member of 'audio' group. As a quick test, I propose that you do this (as 'russ'): pkill esd This should shut down esd (Gnome's sound daemon). Check the output of the "lsof ..." command again; it should be empty if no process accesses the sound devices. Then you can test if your other applications can play sound now. (Your earlier workaround of running alsaconf could also have killed esd since it force-unloads all sound modules, which tends to kill all processes that are accessing sound devices.) Esd will probably run again the next time you start Gnome (logging in via gdm, I assume). You can either try to deactivate esd in Gnome's setup (I don't use Gnome so I don't know any details about this) or you can try to configure your other applications to play sound via esd (how to do that depends on which applications you use). -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
