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

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:55 AM,  <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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...

Typically, IME, Flash.

It should be possible to launch the binary using a wrapper that
redirects things to either ALSA or PulseAudio. I don't remember,
exactly; it's been a long time since I've had to deal with OSS-only
apps.


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