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How to free my soundcard? (FC5)

Hi.

I'm using Skype, and one of Skype's bad habits is, to lock the sound device, but not un-lock it after use.
How can I remove the modules with rmmod, so that I can reload them afterwards?

I tried unloading modules with the -f option, but this doesn't work, it just replies:

Code:

[root@polemon bereziak]# /sbin/rmmod -f soundcore

ERROR: Removing 'soundcore': Resource temporarily unavailable

please help, I'm tired of rebooting all the time just to make my soundcard usable again.

--polemon

Maybe you need to add some dmix info. It is used to channel multiple app outputs to the /dev/dsp. Do a search here for dmix to see some of the config files and where to create them.

Brian