Comment 22 for bug 76876
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| Juraj (ojura) wrote Re: /dev/dsp busy, but no program using it | #22 |
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It made no difference whether I used sudo or not. This bug is called "/dev/dsp busy, but no program using it"
Exclusive usage of /dev/dsp IS NOT a bug. It's a hardware limitation of your sound card, which doesn't support hardware mixing. The Open Sound System (OSS) architecture does NOT support software mixing - therefore, you can't have two or more OSS apps at the same time if your sound card doesn't support hardware mixing. You can recognize OSS by use of /dev/dsp as the audio device.
The solutions are few. You can buy a better sound card; you can configure these programs to use Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) which supports software mixing; or, you can use the alsa-oss (aoss) wrapper to run OSS programs through ALSA.
This what you experience is NOT a bug. It's a limitation of OSS.
A bug is when /dev/dsp is busy when no programs are using it.