On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:51:52 +0200, Jose Cedeno <cedenoj@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/25/05, Herman Robak <herman@skolelinux.no> wrote:
Make sure nothing else is holding on to the sound device. If Totem is not set up to use one of those godawful sound servers (artsd, esd, whatever) then you may have to stop the <insert curse> sound server.
I've had this problem many times, a program is holding the sound device. This is caused usually because the program didn't terminate correctly somehow. To free up your sound device follow these steps: 1. lsof | grep <device> 2. kill -9 pid
Indecent proposal: Making a wrapper script to all the media players doing exactly that. Yes, it's gross, but more often than not it is what you want to do. -- Herman Robak, herman at skolelinux no