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

Seth Lake caver at verizon.net
Sat Nov 8 23:16:02 EST 2003


good to know it's not just me =).  i'll try and play with this tomorrow
evening and get back to you.  it seems to have settled don for now, myth and
mplayer aren't having issues (well, not audio issues).  i'm sure that on a
reboot it will repeat tho.

- seth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <myth at h2cs.com>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 12:45 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] RE:/dev/dsp device or resource busy ??


> Seth,
> If you are running KDE, the next time you get this error run ksysguard
> from a console.  Select the checkbox for Tree, and then look for
> 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.
>
> There had been a solution posted that said to disable the Arts sound
> system in KDE, which I did, but I still had the problem.  Killing
> knotify's aplay process seems to do the trick.




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