Re: /dev/audio

[Mary Honeycutt <mkhoney@bellsouth.net>]

Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> T


  Sorry, I should have said that I tried 'fuser' and got no output.
Something must be runnning, since I'm getting an error msg, however, 
I can't figure out what.

MaryK