With Gnome running, I did fuser -v /dev/dsp and nothing shows up :( Guess I'll let this one be for now... Any ideas on unresolved symbols in LKM's? Thanks though. On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 18:03, Bryce C wrote: > Re the sound, of course /dev/dsp is in use because esd has the lock on > it and is using it to play the audio. Try exiting logging in to the > "Failsafe" session and running the gnome sound recorder. If that still > doesn't work, run `fuser -v /dev/dsp` to find what PIDs are using the > device and kill them, then try. Also, check your mixer levels. Failing > all that, check the hardware. How? I can't really help you there. > > > Second issue. Both using the nforce-audio drivers and the alsa drivers, > > Gnome's sound recorder doesn't record anything from the mic, and > > playback only results in: osscommon: Unable to open /dev/dsp (in use?). > > I tried to re-emerge Gnome with esd, alsa and oss as USE variables, but > > since it's already installed, it doesn't want to recompile with the new > > options. I don't know if that's what the issue was either.