On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 04:43, technomage wrote:
> I've been getting this off and on with the later kernels.
>
> is there anything I can do about it short of rebooting my machine to recover
> sound?
I'm no sound expert, but I sometimes get badly behaved apps that lock
/dev/dsp and refuse to release it when they exit. More precisely, the
bad app doesn't completely exit and some straggler process holds a lock
on /dev/dsp.
Specifically, I have seen this with ayttm-0.4.2-1 and older, as well as,
MPlayer 0.9 in some situations.
Anyway, the lsof command might shed some light on what app is using
/dev/dsp.
# lsof /dev/dsp
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
gmplayer 26649 kevin 11w CHR 14,3 65363 /dev/dsp
#
...Kevin
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