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  1. Bug #76876
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 76876

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Ron Hoogwater (ronhoogwater) wrote : Re: /dev/dsp busy, but no program using it

I have the same problem, but found that firefox and openoffice use /dev/dsp exclusively sometimes. Could it be related to java?

Easy way to check which program is using /dev/dsp:

$ fuser /dev/dsp

Then find the PID with top.