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Re: [TCLUG:2096] /dev/audio



Enlightenment was playing all these fancy sounds and stuff, it had a
little sound program still running after it crashed. Thanks for your help,

Ben


On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Michael Hicks wrote:

> > I was playing some mp3's with x11amp while testing enlightenment. I ending
> > up going to fvwm and trying and failing to load windowmaker because of a
> > bad windowmaker config file. I fix everything and closed x11amp. I just
> > opneded x11amp and tried to play a mp3 and it says error opening
> > /dev/audio. I get the same problem with real audio and /usr/sbin/sndconfig
> > (rh5.1). I don't know what happened, but how can I clear the ?lock? on
> > /dev/audio or whatever is wrong. I ran px aux but didn't see any sound
> > related programs. audio cd's play fine, but then don't use /dev/audio.
> 
> Well, the most likely explanation would be that there still is some
> program that's using /dev/audio..  You're certian x11amp isn't still
> running?  It occasionally just doesn't want to die..
> 
> Other than that, it's possible that the window managers you were using
> had an audio server of some kind..  
> 
> I don't suppose anyone knows how to find what program is using a
> particular file at any given time, is there?
> 
> -- 
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