/dev/dsp: Device busy

[Jeff Elkins]

On Saturday 24 January 2004 8:19 pm, Dorin H. wrote:
>--- Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx at ua.ac.be> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a problem playing sounds in FreeBSD.
>> Sometimes it works, sometimes it
>> doesn't, and then I get the following error message:
>>
>>
>> /dev/dsp: Device busy
>>
>> but "lsof | grep dsp" yields nothing.
>>
>> Can anyone help me with this mystery?  :-)
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> GH
>
>Same here. Toshiba laptop. FBSD 4.9. KDE 3.1.4.
>/dev/dsp is from time to time hold by artsd.
>
>  Problem is, it is hold even when nothing is played.
>fstat /dev/dsp shows the problem.
>If anyone find a solution, pls. let me know.
>TIA,
>/Dorin.

While it's not a real solution, I told KDE not to start arts. Most of the 
sound apps I use are non-KDE, so thus far, I don't miss it.

Oddly enough, this isn't a problem with debian. I'm too new to bsd to have 
figured out why one OS works and one doesn't.

Jeff