Re: Sound broke on my system after 1.0.40

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Dan Hensley wrote:

> > On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Dan Hensley wrote:
> >
> > >     I recently installed Gnome-1.0.4x on my system, and ever since I
> > > restarted sound has been broken.  It worked fine until then.  What
> > > happens is I can start esd, get the tones saying it starts up.  Then I
> > > do esdctl unlock.  Right after that I do an esdcat, and I get opening
> > > socket, format = 0x00001021 at 44100 Hz /dev/dsp: Device or resource
> > > busy
> >
> > What does '/usr/sbin/fuser -uv /dev/dsp' say?
> 
> [root@danlinux /root]# fuser -uv /dev/dsp
> 
>                      USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
> /dev/dsp             root      20482 f....  esd
> 
> What does this mean?

It looks like things are not connecting to esd properly. If I can figure
out how to reproduce the problem, I'll have a look at it.

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