On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:51:52 +0200, Jose Cedeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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

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.

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

 Indecent proposal: Making a wrapper script to
all the media players doing exactly that.

 Yes, it's gross, but more often than not it is
what you want to do.

--
Herman Robak,
herman at skolelinux no

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