Hello. Sometimes I can't hear any sound (xmms, mplayer, play), getting things like 'Device or resource busy'. This happened in woody, now in sarge, sometimes in sid, and everytime it happens, I do a Google search to try to find a solution smarter than rebooting, but never find an answer, so I have to reboot.
So the question is: How can I recover sound in this situation? Yesterday it happened, for instance. There was no xmms, mplayer, play, skype, realplay or whatever I could remember involving sound running in the background. I don't run esd. But still, I could not play any movie or hear any sound from xmms. I tried removing/reloading sound modules, but everytime I tried, it complained that the module is being used and cannot be removed. There doesn't seem to be a rmmod -f option. Is there a way to know which program is using the sound modules, so I can kill that, or any other way to recover a 'clean sound state' without rebooting? There should be, but Google has not been my friend, probably for my inability to make the right question. Regards, Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]