On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:15:53AM -0700, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: > Howdy list? > > I am having problems with the sound on a 4.3 system > running Gnome desktop. > > The error that mplayer gives is: > > AO SUN Can t open audio device /dev/audio, Device busy - nosound > > This has not always been broken, and there is nothing apparent to > me in the dmesg (following). If anyone can give me a clue as to > what is wrong here I would greatly appreciate it. >
try to "fstat /dev/audio" and/or "fstat /dev/sound" to see which application is using your device. Then you can stop the application and try mplayer again. -- Alexandre
