[mythtv-users] RE:/dev/dsp device or resource busy ??

Seth Lake caver at verizon.net
Mon Nov 10 18:00:06 EST 2003


> knotify.  On my system Aplay is a subprocess of knotify, and I am trying
> to see if it is a universal problem, or am I just lucky?  If you have
> knotify/aplay, you can select aplay and then press the kill button.
> That frees up /dev/dsp on my system.  Please let me know if this works
> for you, so I can try to figure out a permanent solution.  If it doesn't
> let me know that too, so I can start looking elsewhere for the problem.

happened again.  this time killing 'knotify' didn't work, but killing
'aplay' did.  incidentally, i renamed 'knotify' to 'knotify.old' but it
found itself and is running anyhow.




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