[ale] sound card blocked

[Jeff Rose]

I have since rebooted and can play as I wish.  I'll try lsof if the
problem arises again.  Thanks for the help everyone.

On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 09:25, Dana Powers wrote:
> 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: "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.
> > > http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/
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