[mythtv-users] PVR 350 Sound Issues

[Martin Cosgrave]

On Thursday 17 July 2003 15:28, JJ Copeland wrote:

> mythtv or mplayer: Cannot open /dev/sound/dsp.  I've tried running both the
> front and back end as root, so I don't think its a permission problem. 
> However, when I do a cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg and play back that file,
> sound works just fine.  The error message mentions something about
> 'something else is using /dev/sound/dsp', but I have no idea what that


get hold of 'lsof' (list open files) and do 'lsof /dev/sound/dsp' - should 
tell you what is holding the dsp open. Have you perchance got a sound server 
like esd installed?