On Tuesday 09 August 2005 23:12, Jon D. Irish wrote: > I just finished compiling a 2.6.12.4 kernel to support the sound card in my > Dell Optiplex GX270; however, when I try to play audio via Music Player, I > keep getting a "OSS device "/dev/dsp" is already in use by another program" > error. I have verified that there are no other programs running at the > time, so what else would be using the device? Try using lsof (may be installed by running `apt-get install lsof`) on the file: le-skrewz:/home/skrewz# lsof /dev/dsp COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME nasd 2682 root 4u CHR 14,3 310544 /dev/dsp You may then use kill to kill the process by pid. Regards, Anders Breindahl.
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