Sound Error (device or resource busy)

[babbing]

When i boot KDE, an informational pops up and says the following-

Error while intializing the sound driver
device /dev/dsp can't be opened (device or resource busy)

sound server will continue, using the null output device

does anyone know how to fix this?

[SkyNet]

Check to see if /dev/dsp exist. It should be in /dev Also what sound card are you using?

[JimH]

This is more then likely going to be an interrupt conflict. Can you post the output of:

cat /proc/interrupts

Look in /var/log/messages for any errors that reference your sound card and post them.

What version of Red Hat are you using? What sound card do you have?

Jim H

[babbing]

let it be known that i am totally a noob with linux:. the good thing is that i choose to learn about it rather than deal with XP which totally frustrates me. with that in mind, i can tell you i have an Ensoniq audioPCI (sound blaster) 1371.

Currently, i am running redhat 7.2/Enigma (KDE is my preference as far as GUI's)
i want to try those commands you guys offered but i am not sure as to how to properly input them into the konsole. do i have to do it in root?
I do have a dsp file.

thanks for all your help, god know i need.

[babbing]

i tried a few things since i last posted. first i chmod o+rw blah blah blah. then i chown Greg:Greg /dev/dsp (i think)

i am still working on getting those commands to input and getting you info on the situation.

[babbing]

got this:
[Greg@localhost Greg]$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 94187 XT-PIC timer
1: 6 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 27368 XT-PIC es1371
11: 3819 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, eth0
12: 47326 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 20751 XT-PIC ide0
15: 17160 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
MIS: 0

i will have more in a bit about the messages

[babbing]

okay, i went through the messages and found the following:
May 6 13:46:39 localhost kernel: es1371: version v0.30 time 16:59:17 Sep 6 2001
May 6 13:46:39 localhost kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:04.0
May 6 13:46:39 localhost kernel: es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x09
May 6 13:46:39 localhost kernel: es1371: found es1371 rev 9 at io 0x1400 irq 10
May 6 13:46:39 localhost kernel: es1371: features: joystick 0x0
May 6 13:46:39 localhost kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4352:0x5914 (Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev B)
May 6 13:46:39 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0
May 6 13:46:39 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
May 6 13:46:39 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
May 6 13:46:39 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
May 6 13:46:39 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0

What do you think?

[JimH]

i tried a few things since i last posted. first i chmod o+rw blah blah blah. then i chown Greg:Greg /dev/dsp (i think)

It is not necessary with Red Hat to set the /dev permissions. These are set when you login.

Have you updated your 7.2 install with all available errata?

Can you post a copy of your /etc/modules.conf

and the ouput of: /sbin/lsmod

Jim H

[babbing]

[Greg@localhost Greg]$ /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_cp437 4352 1 (autoclean)
vfat 9744 1 (autoclean)
fat 32512 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
nls_iso8859-1 2832 2 (autoclean)
ide-cd 27040 1 (autoclean)
cdrom 28640 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
es1371 26912 1 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 8832 0 (autoclean) [es1371]
gameport 1936 0 (autoclean) [es1371]
soundcore 4464 4 (autoclean) [es1371]
mga 101312 1
agpgart 27552 3
binfmt_misc 6416 1
autofs 11584 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ipchains 39232 0
mousedev 4448 0 (unused)
keybdev 2160 0 (unused)
hid 19120 0 (unused)
usbkbd 3424 0 (unused)
input 3840 0 [mousedev keybdev hid usbkbd]
usb-uhci 21600 0 (unused)
usbcore 51808 1 [hid usbkbd usb-uhci]
8139too 12864 1
ext3 64624 2
jbd 41056 2 [ext3]

i can't seem to get permission to get the other one, even in root

[JimH]

i can't seem to get permission to get the other one, even in root

Really? wierd. I don't think it will make a difference anyway. The output of /sbin/lsmod looks fine. So far I haven't seen anything to indicate where the problem may be. :'(

As root try:

cat /etc/modules.conf

Have you tried going into the KDE Control Center are restarting aRTS? aRTS is the KDE sound server.

Jim H