Re: Video from Erinn and Magni's talk "Debian Women and Women in Free Software" at Debconf5 (URL)

[Jose Cedeno]

On 7/25/05, Herman Robak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:42:11 +0200, Michelle Konzack
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Already downloaded with mozilla, but now "totem"
> and Mandrake has no Sound !!! Arghhhh....

  Make sure nothing else is holding on to the sound
device.  If Totem is not set up to use one of those
godawful sound servers (artsd, esd, whatever) then
you may have to stop the <insert curse> sound
server.

  Sound servers, just say no.

--
Herman Robak,
herman at skolelinux no


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I've had this problem many times, a program is holding the sound device. This is caused usually because the program didn't terminate correctly somehow. To free up your sound device follow these steps:

1. lsof | grep <device>
2. kill -9 pid

Replace <device> with /dev/dsp or whatever it is in your case. Then the pid of the process from step 1 is what you use in command 2.

Jose