On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: > At 8:41 PM -0600 2/12/02, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > >I'm on a PowerMac 7500 w/G3 card. When I try to play a sound with mpg321, > >I get the following message: > > "Error opening libao oss driver. (Is device in use?)" > > > >What might be using the device? I do have the esound demon installed (for > >some reason, I'm thinking I need that for something). I don't use a > >desktop environment - I log in, then do 'startx' which brings up twm. I > >can play CD's fine with 'xplaycd.' > > Well, if you do have esd running, it will open the audio device. > However you can make mpg321 talk though it by running it this way: > > mpg321 -o esd myfile.mp3
Turns out that I *don't* have esd running; I thought that I did, since I have libesd0 installed. I did a 'fuser /dev/dsp' as suggested by someone else, and nothing was output (meaning nothing is using /dev/dsp?). Does this indicate a configuration problem? -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.net/~ppearson/ "Lord heal our land. Father heal our land. Hear our cry and turn our nation back to You" - Heal Our Land, _Magnify The Lord_ (Integrity Music)
