On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:43:14 +0000 John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frans Ketelaars wrote: > > >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 > > > > > > > Thanks, Frans, > > I took it I am to run this as a command, > > > ]# /sbin/fuser/ /dev/dsp ^ that slash shouldn't be there ..... > bash: /sbin/fuser/: Not a directory > > > What am I doing wrong ? > > John Oops, sorry, it's part of the psmisc-21-2mdk RPM, but I think that's already installed on your system and the extra "/" is the problem :) -Frans
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