Les Davis wrote:
> Hi all, I was using xmms with no problems until I installed mplayer
> (witch is not working yet, that will be asked about later) and now
> I'm getting an error saying "check that no other program is blocking
> sound card". Is there a config file I can set up? or do I need to
> uninstall mplayer? I would like to have a couple of media programs I
> can run on my machine. Thanks in advance. Les
>
Is this something that happens after a failed attempt to run mplayer or
do you want to run both apps at once?
It's possible there's an mplayer process hanging around holding onto the
pcm device. Check for this at the terminal with:
$ ps aux | grep mplayer
..and kill any running instances of mplayer. You can also check which
programs are using ALSA/OSS audio devices with:
$ lsof | grep dsp
or
$ lsof | grep pcm
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