While it usually plays sound fine the first time I open the device I get ENXIO or EBUSY back from /dev/dsp when trying to read or write from the device afterwards. Kernel is 2.4.21-ben2. Any ideas? Regards,
Thats a common Linux problem since the /dev/dsp (IIRC digital sound port) device can only be opened once, e.g. xmms playing music and xine playing a movie with sound at the same time won't work.
When the old process is still arround try finding and killing it via 'fuser /dev/dsp'I have a better soundcard (or drivers? emu10k1 fyi) on my x86 which provides multiple dsp's so xine and xmms simultaneously does work.
I don't know if this will ever work (alsa?), KDE provides some abstraction with their arts deamon, yet this only allows multiple KDE Apps to playback sound.
-Thomas