Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device busy ?

From: Rob Lahaye (lahaye_at_snu.ac.kr)
Date: 09/15/03

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    Hi,

    How can I find out which app. keeps /dev/dsp busy?

    Without any other sound application running, I got this message when
    starting mplayer or realaudio. Somehow the system got muddled up.

    After some random trial and error, I finally discovered that everything
    came back to normal when I killed xscreensaver.
    So for some reason xscreensaver kept /dev/dsp busy.

    Is there a command to find out directly which app. keeps /dev/dsp busy?

    Thanks,
    Rob.

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