F7 intel ich5, alsa, device busy
Suren Karapetyan
surenkarapetyan at gmail.com
Wed May 14 21:28:52 UTC 2008
Mike Cronenworth wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: F7 intel ich5, alsa, device busy
> From: Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net>
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora
> <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
> Date: 05/14/2008 03:19 PM
>
>> Mike Cronenworth wrote:
>>> > What is
>>> > the best option here for sound on this laptop?
>>> >
>>>
>>> 1) Use lsof on /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p to see if anything is grabbing onto it.
>>>
>>> 2) Upgrade to Fedora 9
>>> # rpm -Uhv fedora-release-9.0-2.noarch.rpm
>>> # yum update
>>>
>>> You may say "this is not an option" but there is no other way to get
>>> an updated driver for your system unless you want to manually install
>>> an F8 or F9 kernel (not recommended). Plus, PulseAudio (in F8 and now
>>> F9) may help alleviate his problem.
>>>
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Gerry
>>> >
>>>
>> lsof find firefox got a hold of it. I killed all his firefox windows
>> and then the audio app starts working again. So now, he can use his
>> ip phone but he just can't browse while doing it. ??
>
> AFAIK Firefox should not be holding the sound driver open. Do they have
> Flash installed? Visiting Youtube? Possibly a plugin like mplayerplugin?
>
> Upgrading to F8 or F9 with PulseAudio would alleviate this.
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gerry
>>
>
Or if You can't/don't want to upgrade build a newer kernel with alsa
which has dmix in it.
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