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 1RynBg-0008GY-Cj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:31:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06C71E1003; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35324E0FEF for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:27:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-78-35-136-222.netcologne.de [78.35.136.222]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5326DDC04C for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:27:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:27:53 +0100 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy Message-ID: <20120218172753.6099cc84@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20120218155546.GG3062@solfire> References: <20120218164608.18bb0f35@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218155546.GG3062@solfire> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5310d249-0c77-44ca-8f2f-df5106584675 X-Archives-Hash: bf8f3a51c040e348d96a0ce14f66562d 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