Freeing the Sound Device Without Closing App

LinuxGeek · 12-02-2005, 02:43 PM

Hi,
I just ran into a situation where Firefox was using the sound device (I used lsof /dev/dsp and it gave me the PID of firefox) even though I had closed the tab that was playing back audio on /dev/dsp. So I was forced to close firefox to release the sound device. Is there any way ro release a busy sound card without terminating or shutting down the application in this case?. I'm currently using Firefox 1.06 with KDE 3.4. Thanks for your time.

__J · 12-02-2005, 02:55 PM

try:

Code:

fuser -k /dev/dsp

and see if that will work.

HTH

dukeinlondon · 12-02-2005, 03:08 PM

Check if your sound chip as an alsa driver. You could get rid of this problem altogether

LinuxGeek · 12-03-2005, 01:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by __J

try:

Code:

fuser -k /dev/dsp

and see if that will work.

HTH

But this would kill the app that's using the sound card. I was trying to release the device without killing the app using the device. I think I'll have a look into the Alsa driver idea.