Thread: "Audio already in use" problem on N900
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Eero Nurkkala is offline Eero Nurkkala
2010-01-02 , 18:35
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#6
Originally Posted by shiny View Post
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.
Hmm. That doesn't look bad. IIRC, if you're aplay'ing stuff and try to play MP3s at the same time from the media player, you get the "audio in use" -message.

I think you can stop / start pulseaudio with
"stop pulseaudio" and "start pulseaudio". May be worth a try.. as well as starting the pulseaudio with "pulseaudio --system -v &" (may give some traces)

also it'd be interesting to see what "aplay -Dhw:0 -fdat /dev/zero" says.
 

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