I hope this is not OT ... ;) I am relatively new to the Linux System, especially with its sound system. I am playing with the alsa system in particular with wavplay version 1.4 first time a play a wav file, it is ok, however second time doing the same I get:
Device or resource busy: Opening audio device /dev/dsp
I also get from "dmesg": === snip === Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e09c5000 printing eip: c7f2c402 *pde = 01724067 Oops: 0002 2.4.21-99-default #1 Wed Sep 24 13:30:51 UTC 2003 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c7f2c402>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: 00000000 ebx: e09c2014 ecx: 000008cd edx: 00005320 esi: 00000002 edi: e09c5000 ebp: 00002990 esp: c1f95f28 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process wavplay (pid: 4982, stackpage=c1f95000) Stack: 00000000 00002990 dd0d9c14 c8375a78 df5e1c18 da011a4f 00000002 e09c2014 00002990 d19a7ea0 df5e1c18 c7620a18 d19a7ea0 da012e0e df5e1c18 d19a7ea0 c15ff3a0 c2d7dba0 dac9e220 c01453f9 c2d7dba0 d19a7ea0 d19a7ea0 dc9bca00 Call Trace: [<da011a4f>] [<da012e0e>] [<c01453f9>] [<c0144137>] [<c01441a3>] [<c0108dd3>] Modules: [(snd-pcm-oss:<da010060>:<da01b060>)] [(snd-pcm:<c7f20060>:<c7f2fe64>)] Code: f3 ab f6 c2 02 74 02 66 ab f6 c2 01 74 01 aa 31 c0 5b 5b 5e === snip === maybe this has something to do with each other ... I do not know how to get the device "unbusy" - please help tia Jörg -- ================= lat=52.35°N - lon=10.25°E ====================== http://www.ibk-consult.de