Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

[meino.cramer@gmx.de]

Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> [12-02-18 16:52]:
> Hi there!
> 
> I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff
> (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not being
> used. I think I had such problems before, so I used to run
> games-fps/quake3-bin instead. I have no sound. 
> 
> 
> There are error messages:
> 
> /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
> Could not open /dev/dsp
> 
> This is true, even as root I cannot echo something to this device. lsof
> and fuser return nothing, so I wonder what is using the device.
> 
> I had sound problems with Quake3 in the past, and found a wrapper script
> quake3-sdl-sound [*], that worked. But now it doesn't.
> 
> Any ideas? There will be a big match going on with my little sister this
> evening, so you see this is a really really important issue!
> 
> 	Wonko
> 

Hi Alex,

try (as root)

    fuser /dev/dsp

to figure out, which task helds that device...

Best regards,
mcc