From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rymg4-00045X-Gs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:58:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A989AE0F0D; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:57:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03393E0EE9 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:55:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 Feb 2012 15:55:47 -0000 Received: from p54850443.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.4.67] by mail.gmx.net (mp024) with SMTP; 18 Feb 2012 16:55:47 +0100 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/vxoFw/i/vqh7bUsptvWBfUgXq7TBwbkOT3Hi3Je WI8YjT6gDnS+xg Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:55:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:55:46 +0100 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy Message-ID: <20120218155546.GG3062@solfire> References: <20120218164608.18bb0f35@weird.wonkology.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120218164608.18bb0f35@weird.wonkology.org> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 0e26e812-a7e3-4c11-9f96-fdf40a5cbda8 X-Archives-Hash: e913110e6d540a362b679f4e3bada72c Alex Schuster [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