On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:09 am, many eyes noted that Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:34 pm, elPunishar wrote:
> > high all!
> >
> > i've got a problem on mandrake 9.1 with my nforce onboard soundcard.
> >
> > /dev/dsp seems to be alway in use, even when theres no other program
> > running that has anything to do with sound.
>
> First off, do (as root) a:
>
> lsof /dev/dsp
>
> and it will show you what (if anything) has it tied up. If something has
> it, you can kill it using the given pid number. If nothing is hoarding it,
> then you might want to go into the KDE control center and reduce the amount
> of time that artsd (the usual suspect!) is using.
>
> HTHs!
Run
$ top
and look if aplay is running. if so kill it.
Charlie
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