Re: /dev/audio

[Hwei Sheng TEOH <hsteoh@cs.toronto.edu>]

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.


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