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kiss-o-matic
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:41 pm Post subject: Finding out what's hogging the sound device

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Like many others, I have serious issues with Arts. On a fresh restart, it's fine. However, if a problem comes along, and I have to restart the sound system, I usually get this:

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Sound server informational message:

Error while initializing the sound driver:

device: default can't be opened for playback (Device or resource busy)

The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

I had a tool on my old Redhat setup that would tell me what was hogging the sound device. I can't for the life of me remember what it was though. Anything similar w/ Gentoo?

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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:36 am Post subject:

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Maybe lsof would help? Something like:

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lsof | grep /dev/snd

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