F7 intel ich5, alsa, device busy

[Mike Cronenworth]

-------- 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
>