RE: Cannot open the audio device. Another application may beusing it

<[email protected]> Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:29:32 +0100
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Ok some luck


# /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/dsp             mgupta     1140 f....  gaim


After killing gaim, when I now try to play any sound, nothing comes out. =
My mind might be playing tricks, but I think there is a faint blip that =
I hear when RealPlayer tries to play any sample audio clip, which then =
fades into silence

I ran "sndconfig" thinking it might help, but I cannot hear any sound.=20

Following is the what /var/log/messages contains now:
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Jan  6 14:24:09 ose003 kernel: Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.21, =
16:10:15 May 23 2003
Jan  6 14:24:09 ose003 kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.5
Jan  6 14:24:09 ose003 kernel: i810: Intel ICH2 found at IO 0x2400 and =
0x2000, IRQ 11
Jan  6 14:24:09 ose003 kernel: i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 =
channels.
Jan  6 14:24:09 ose003 kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: =
ADS96(Analog Devices AD1885)
Jan  6 14:24:09 ose003 kernel: i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 Unable to map =
surround DAC's (or DAC's not present), total channels =3D 2
Jan  6 14:24:09 ose003 kernel: i810_audio: setting clocking to 41379
Jan  6 14:24:21 ose003 kernel: Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.21, =
16:10:15 May 23 2003
Jan  6 14:24:21 ose003 kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.5
Jan  6 14:24:21 ose003 kernel: i810: Intel ICH2 found at IO 0x2400 and =
0x2000, IRQ 11
Jan  6 14:24:22 ose003 kernel: i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 =
channels.
Jan  6 14:24:22 ose003 kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: =
ADS96(Analog Devices AD1885)
Jan  6 14:24:22 ose003 kernel: i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 Unable to map =
surround DAC's (or DAC's not present), total channels =3D 2
Jan  6 14:24:22 ose003 kernel: i810_audio: setting clocking to 41379


Cheers
M


-----Original Message-----
From:	[email protected] on behalf of Gupta, Manav/RMD
Sent:	Thu 1/6/2005 12:45 PM
To:	[email protected]
Cc:=09
Subject:	[Sound] Cannot open the audio device. Another application may =
beusing it
Hi folks

I'm an absolute newbie, so please be gentle.

Yes, I have searched this list, and googled, but I haven't been able to =
get the sound working. I also want to add that I had this similar =
problem few weeks ago, which I then somehow resolved, but two days ago, =
RealPlayer 10 started complaining "Cannot open the audio device. Another =
application may be using it".

Here are some details:

# uname -a
Linux ose003 2.4.20 #2 Fri May 23 16:23:34 BST 2003 i686 i686 i386 =
GNU/Linux

# lspci -v
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio =
(rev 05)
        Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device 008a
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at 2000 [size=3D256]
        I/O ports at 2400 [size=3D64]


# lsmod
[root@ose003 RealPlayer]# /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
i810_audio             24840   1  (autoclean)
ac97_codec             13672   0  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore               6468   2  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
ide-cd                 33700   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  33728   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
binfmt_misc             7452   1
parport_pc             19044   1  (autoclean)
lp                      8996   0  (autoclean)
parport                37152   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs                 13364   0  (autoclean) (unused)
eepro100               22388   1
mii                     3912   0  [eepro100]
iptable_filter          2412   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables              15096   1  [iptable_filter]
nls_iso8859-1           3516   1  (autoclean)
mousedev                5524   1
keybdev                 2944   0  (unused)
hid                    22244   0  (unused)
input                   5792   0  [mousedev keybdev hid]

# more /etc/modules.conf
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 eepro100
alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L =
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S =
>/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias usb-controller usb-uhci


# tail /var/log/messages
Jan  6 11:09:45 ose003 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module =
sound-slot-1
Jan  6 11:09:45 ose003 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module =
sound-service-1-0
Jan  6 11:09:45 ose003 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module =
sound-slot-1
Jan  6 11:09:45 ose003 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module =
sound-service-1-0


#dmesg
i810: Intel ICH2 found at IO 0x2400 and 0x2000, IRQ 11
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS96(Analog Devices AD1885)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 Unable to map surround DAC's (or DAC's not =
present), total channels =3D 2
i810_audio: setting clocking to 41379

I have tried the "restart" mantra of the windoze world to no avail

Please advise

Thanks
Manav

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