Re: [LAU] old problem: alsa device or resource busy

From: Rich E <reakinator@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed May 28 2008 - 22:31:34 EEST

Nice, this did the trick! I can't thank you enough.. what an annoying thing
to have to restart my computer because I can't find what process is hogging
audio. But no longer..

cheers,
Rich

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:29 AM, James McDermott <
jamesmichaelmcdermott@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> This can help:
>
> $ lsof | grep snd
>
> I often have to close firefox, and I sometimes kill dbus-launch and/or
> dbus-launchd. I'm sure that's not a recommended solution, but it's
> never caused a crash and it has allowed me to start Jack.
>
> jmmcd
>
>
>
>
> --
> James McDermott
> CS2045,
> Dept. Computer Science and Information Systems,
> University of Limerick,
> Ireland.
> www.skynet.ie/~jmmcd <http://www.skynet.ie/%7Ejmmcd>
>

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