On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:41:50 +0000
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Damian Gatabria wrote:
> 
> >On Wednesday 22 January 2003 18:27, John Richard Smith wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Every time I boot up I get a warning message in a terminal,
> >>/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
> >>
> >>How can I check what is keeping the device busy.
> >>What can I do about it.
> >>
> >>John
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >At which stage of the boot process do you get this?
> >
> >Damian
> >
> >  
> >
> Immediately on desktop and upon putting up d4x which has a terminal
> which come up as standard.I know something is
> amiss because kde jingle fails. All other aspect of sound setup
> appears ok, like grip, and the various cdplayers, but kde desktop
> should arrive with a short sound bite and doesn't, I'd just like to
> find out what's going on and correct it.
> I suspect it is also affecting the sound in xine but this is very much 
> supposition
> at this stage.
> 
> I have alsa sound with aRts enabled.
> 
> John
> 
> -- 
> John Richard Smith
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

'/sbin/fuser /dev/dsp' should give you the pid of the offending 
program.

HTH,

    -Frans

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