[MPlayer-users] Can't open audio device /dev/dsp

[Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski]

>   How do I tell if aRTS or ESD is running? Neither show from the "ps ax"
> command.
>   "fuser /dev/dsp" returned nothing.

Hmm, the interesting thing is that you definitely get
"Device or resource busy" instead of "No such device".

How about PulseAudio?

What is your soundcard and what driver you're using?

You might install libalsa-dev so mplayer will compile
with alsa support, but it might not do any good for you.

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