[EMAIL PROTECTED] ps -ax | grep esd ~ 80418 ?? Ss 2:56.38 esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 5 84843 p5 S+ 0:00.01 egrep esd
so if I kill -9 the esd process, icq will start emitting sounds ? petre On Thursday 13 November 2003 21:04 Anno Domini, Cordula's Web wrote using one of his keyboards: > > play: /dev/dsp: Device busy > > Perhaps esd is running and grabbing the sound device? > > I have a similar problem with mpg123. Calling mpg123 > multiple times (e.g. in a loop with a shell script) > until it works is an acceptable work-around for me: > > #!/bin/sh > until (mpg123 "$1") > do > sleep 1; > done > > Of course, a solution would be better than a work-arond :) -- Login: petre Name: Petre Bandac Directory: /home/petre Shell: /usr/local/bin/zsh On since Tue Nov 11 14:37 (EET) on ttyv0, idle 11:21 (messages off) No Mail. No Plan. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"