Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> [12-02-18 16:52]:
> Hi there!
>
> I want to play Quake3. games-fps/quake3 works, but somehow extra stuff
> (maps, models) I downloaded and put into /opt/quake3/baseq3 is not being
> used. I think I had such problems before, so I used to run
> games-fps/quake3-bin instead. I have no sound.
>
>
> There are error messages:
>
> /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
> Could not open /dev/dsp
>
> This is true, even as root I cannot echo something to this device. lsof
> and fuser return nothing, so I wonder what is using the device.
>
> I had sound problems with Quake3 in the past, and found a wrapper script
> quake3-sdl-sound [*], that worked. But now it doesn't.
>
> Any ideas? There will be a big match going on with my little sister this
> evening, so you see this is a really really important issue!
>
> Wonko
>
Hi Alex,
try (as root)
fuser /dev/dsp
to figure out, which task helds that device...
Best regards,
mcc
