On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:02:00 +0100 Alexandre Ratchov <a...@caoua.org> wrote:
> 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 > > Achh. I spoke too soon. Anyways, the problem seems to be the esd sound daemon not getting out of the way when something else wants to play. Dhu
