[ale] sound card blocked

[Dana Powers]

Have you tried (/usr/sbin/) lsof ? This will list open files, although
it may be lower level than that. Just a thought. Oh, btw, hi list.
dpk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Rose" <jojerose at mindspring.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "phrostie" <pfrostie at yahoo.com>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] sound card blocked


> ps aux | grep esd comes up empty though xmms was using esd.  there
are
> no xmms processes and I have since switched it to use OSS.  Also
found
> the fuser command.  /sbin/fuser -v <device> will list processes
using
> the device.  It comes up empty for /dev/dsp as well as /dev/audio.
>
> On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 13:10, phrostie wrote:
> > check to see if you have esd(or similar) running.
> > some apps need it others are screwed up by it.
> >
> >
> > On Sunday 08 September 2002 12:00, you wrote:
> > > Something is holding my soundcard making it impossible to play
> > > anything.  I can't figure out what it is with 'ps -ef'.  Is
there any
> > > way to find out what process has control of the card?  I've had
this
> > > happen before.  Logging out won't free it but I know rebooting
will.
> > > Surely there is a way to free it without rebooting tho.  Thanks
> >
> > --
> > Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of DOS,
> > and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings.
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> > http://www.freelists.org/list/cad-linux
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