realplayer, mplayer, lost sound, and a kldunload snd_es137x panic

Juergen Lock nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de
Mon Feb 27 14:16:51 PST 2006


On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:58:44AM +0800, Ariff Abdullah wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:51:56 +0100
> Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Ok sound appears to still work, thx. (No idea yet if the original
> > problem is fixed tho.)  One question: should I be able to kldunload
> > snd_es137x when sound is not used?  I get:
> > kldunload: can't unload file: Device busy
> > 
> >  At least I dont get a panic anymore... :)
> > 
> Well, you surely got that because something is using /dev/dsp or
> /dev/mixer , especially if running GNOME or KDE.
> 
> fstat | grep '\(mixer\|dsp\)'

Oh lol, I didnt know xfce was doing that too... :) (And I only looked
for /dev/dsp)

nox      xfce4-panel   710    5 /dev        154 crw-rw-rw-  mixer0 rw
nox      xfce-mcs-manager   702    5 /dev        154 crw-rw-rw-  mixer0 rw


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