More Gentoo usability issues :(

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Author: Emmanuel Gravel
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Subject: More Gentoo usability issues :(
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.