On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:55 AM, <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote: > Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> [12-02-18 16:52]: >> Hi there! >> >> I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff >> (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not being >> used. I think I had such problems before, so I used to run >> games-fps/quake3-bin instead. I have no sound. >> >> >> There are error messages: >> >> /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy >> Could not open /dev/dsp >> >> This is true, even as root I cannot echo something to this device. lsof >> and fuser return nothing, so I wonder what is using the device. >> >> I had sound problems with Quake3 in the past, and found a wrapper script >> quake3-sdl-sound [*], that worked. But now it doesn't. >> >> Any ideas? There will be a big match going on with my little sister this >> evening, so you see this is a really really important issue! >> >> Wonko >> > > Hi Alex, > > try (as root) > > fuser /dev/dsp > > to figure out, which task helds that device...
Typically, IME, Flash. It should be possible to launch the binary using a wrapper that redirects things to either ALSA or PulseAudio. I don't remember, exactly; it's been a long time since I've had to deal with OSS-only apps. -- :wq
