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Re: dma_sound problems on 12" pbook



On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 08:14:13PM +0200, Thomas Otto wrote:
> 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'
No, that's not the problem. I double checked that, e.g.:
~$ fuser /dev/dsp
~$ cat /dev/dsp
cat: /dev/dsp: No such device or address
~$ cat .bashrc > /dev/dsp
-bash: /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
~$ fuser /dev/dsp
Regards,
 -- Guido

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