Please help with mplayer problem

[Robin Laing]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> I have done some searching via google on the issue, however most of the 
> results aren't in english, strangely. Anyways. I'd setup FC3 for a 
> friend of mine. And I had connected to the machine via ssh (from my 
> home). Well I was having a little fun. I was playing a few songs on the 
> remote machine using mplayer. Suddenly mplayer gave the following message:
> 
> [AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or 
> resource busy
> 
> It's given the message ever since and does not play files remotely (not 
> sure about locally) with mplayer at least. What can I do to troubleshoot 
> this? Any ideas.  My friend has also reported that songs take forver (a 
> long wait) to play music now. She uses KPlayer, which uses mplayer.
> 
> Any ideas?
> Thank you.
> 

Is there an old process of mplayer still running.  I have had that 
occur in the past.  I have had to manually kill the pid

Check what is running.

I have also had problems with esd not releasing properly.
-- 
Robin Laing