Re: /dev/dsp

[Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Wendel wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >    I'm back to FC5 and here is what I see is this:
> >
> > [karl@k5di ~]$ ls -al /dev/dsp
> > crw------- 1 karl root 14, 3 May  2 17:23 /dev/dsp
> > [karl@k5di ~]$ gmfsk &
> > [1] 2757
> > [karl@k5di ~]$ *** opensnd: open: /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy ***
> >
> > The bottom writing is from my application which see's this /dev/dsp 
> > is being used by some other application. But I can't figure out what 
> > it is.
> >
> >
> > Karl
>
>
> Are you running the gnome or kde sound daemons, "esd" or "arts" ? Try 
> running "/usr/sbin/lsof | grep -i dsp", it should show the bugger.
   Hi John, I checked and it showed the application I am trying to use 
had dsp. I turned off gmfsk and then it said there was no use of dsp at 
all. So it would seem that the problem must be with my application. 
Thanks for the way to tell.

Karl

> Regards,
>
> John