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Robin Cornelius wrote: > artsd kde's sound server I bet, it hogs the /dev/dsp device as it > expects other apps to talk through it. I think you are using the OSS > driver and alsa is not even doing anything here. Alsa is better behaved > than that (and dosn't present a /dev/dsp by default,unless you have the > alsa-oss emulation layer which simulates a OSS device using an asla driver). > > Just for a laugh, (i think you use kde?) in the kde -> control center -> > sound & multimedia -> sound system. try selecting alsa and oss and > trying a sound test see if either works. I tried oss and alsa, not a squeak. this seems odd to me:- j1@j1-laptop:~$ sudo cat /usr/src/alsa/alsa-utils-1.0.13/speaker-test/samples > /dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy But nothing seems to be using it! j1@j1-laptop:~$ sudo lsof | grep /dev/dsp j1@j1-laptop:~$ sudo fuser /dev/dsp both give nothing. :-| -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html