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 1Rymrx-0005h2-4t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:10:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F5DAE0F35; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE458E0F82 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:08:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcit16 with SMTP id it16so4232587bkc.40 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:08:59 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of mikemol@gmail.com designates 10.205.130.1 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.205.130.1; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of mikemol@gmail.com designates 10.205.130.1 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=mikemol@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=mikemol@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.205.130.1]) by 10.205.130.1 with SMTP id hk1mr7408108bkc.140.1329581339105 (num_hops = 1); Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:08:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=eaJH5v0XKBEurSughvamdGib74fnVW9vffp8OHsCI9U=; b=HhWNotHceY3BCIomleaQUZ8oxYwSb6TaoSOuceVZhDtFMS3X+vCfAk9q0WL+Zt2rx4 h7ZuMXU8xgfIngr9nR9z31SGczOswpfJL6iTb81MXv80lQ6FbgcbfTy0k6u7d8o7uySz etVMATbosXfZdXBVN3H36wpfXZ1kqaT5YpNls= 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 Received: by 10.205.130.1 with SMTP id hk1mr6029210bkc.140.1329581339005; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:08:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.205.124.129 with HTTP; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:08:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120218155546.GG3062@solfire> References: <20120218164608.18bb0f35@weird.wonkology.org> <20120218155546.GG3062@solfire> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:08:58 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: cbd3feef-379d-4c43-8d3f-7e064c4a0de1 X-Archives-Hash: cda20d10ac5e0d50a0284378cf11c56e On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:55 AM, wrote: > 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! >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Wonko >> > > Hi Alex, > > try (as root) > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0fuser /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. --=20 :wq