Thread: "Audio already in use" problem on N900
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2010-01-02 , 18:00
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Originally Posted by Eero Nurkkala View Post
How about "lsof /dev/snd/*" from xterm
and kill the process owning the entries?

maybe post the results also, would be nice..
Sure: running this as root gives the following output (apologies for the poor formatting):

COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
alsaped 1676 root 3u CHR 116,0 1746 /dev/snd/controlC0
pulseaudi 1718 root 18u CHR 116,0 1746 /dev/snd/controlC0

Killing these process makes them restart, but playing any media then results in silence for the first try, and then the "audio in use" error again.

Thanks for your advice so far. It almost feels like there might be some kind of lockfile issue, but my Linux audio knowledge is admittedly zilch.