/dev/dsp
Hey all, i have skype and everytime i try to call someone i get "problem with sound device". Now the skype forums arnt too helpful but basically what it narrows down to is something is using my sound (/dev/dsp).
Now ive had this problem before when i was running Kmix and fixed it by killing it in the process/icon bar. However i cant see anything visually using the sound. Any suggestions? Edit: Skype also says: Code:
/dev/dsp-1: Device or resource busy |
lsof
Try
lsof | grep /dev/dsp This will list any programs that are currently using your dsp device. You can react accordingly. |
Nothing... :(
Anything else? |
pstree -pa | grep dsp ??
Regards |
I'm having the exact same problem.
/dev/dsp-1: Device or resource busy It seems to be a bit random. It seems to happen less often when the far end hangs up, and more often when I hangup. I had it with version 20, and downgraded to 17. Same thing. lsof | grep dsp skype 16738 jcouper 39u CHR 14,3 5382 /dev/dsp So, the process using it is skype itself... so it's an internal skype bug... it fails to free the device, and the attempts to re-claim it, and fails because it already has it. Exiting skype frees the lock on the dev, and a call made after a restart will work normally. I'm on FC4. Everything else seems to work OK. The sound quality seems to be just fine. Just this silly /dev/dsp locking problem! Is there a way to formally raise bugs to skype? |
Ooops. Correction. It happened with 1.2.0.17. It does NOT seem to happen with the earlier 1.1.0.20 version! So, if this is annoying you, downgrade to 1.1.0.20 and wait for a fix by Skype.
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I have seen that maybe you're using adsp instead dsp, /dev/dsp is usually a link to /dev/dsp0 or could be /dev/adsp, in my case (slack 10.2) it pointer to /dev/dsp0 and my problem is that i want to be able to play other media files while i'm using skype, i don't know how to solve this problem, i have another computer that runs slack 10.1 and use udev system, so i figure that making the link of /dev/dsp to /dev/sound/adsp works fine, but as i'm not using udev in this laptop i'm not able to link /dev/adsp to /dev/dsp. I don't know if it has to be with that or it has to be with the sound card.
I hope this can help you friends, try to use adsp instead of dsp. |
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