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 1Rynit-00043W-G6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:05:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE602E0FC5; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81CF9E1090 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:03:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 Feb 2012 17:03:27 -0000 Received: from p54850443.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.4.67] by mail.gmx.net (mp032) with SMTP; 18 Feb 2012 18:03:27 +0100 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18L6bxAivYLdbFQ6ctCz5VYiNjrBtIVjroB5Gfsus Xg2Li+5F6kT7zy Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:03:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:03:27 +0100 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy Message-ID: <20120218170327.GH3062@solfire> References: <20120218164608.18bb0f35@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218155546.GG3062@solfire> <20120218172753.6099cc84@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: <20120218172753.6099cc84@weird.wonkology.org> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: b559a342-7fb0-401b-ad5d-1b46a6d7d62e X-Archives-Hash: 605d024a82d4aa304288c79524106f42 Alex Schuster [12-02-18 17:36]: > meino.cramer@gmx.de writes: > > > Alex Schuster [12-02-18 16:52]: > > > > 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! > > I just found a workaround: It seems games-fps/quake3 looks for stuff > in /usr/share/games/quake3 only. I made this a symlink to /opt/quake3, > and now all the custom maps and models are found. But still I would like > t know how to make such applications work again. > > > Hi Alex, > > > > try (as root) > > > > fuser /dev/dsp > > > > to figure out, which task helds that device... > > I get no output at all. > > Wonko > ?Hu? The access rights to that device are ok...? mcc