[MPlayer-users] Re: audio

[Jeremy Hansen]

> I've just installed FC5 on pentium 3 with rpms of mplayer and other
> packages. I can run the mplayer to play out the DVD video, but there is
> no audio. There is an error of /dev/dsp cannot find. The same machine
> was previous installed with Window NT and had no problem to play both
> DVD video and audio. The audio card connected to DVD sound. I am new to
> linux audio, could anyone help me how to fix the audio problem?

run as root fuser -m /dev/dsp

It will give you the pid of the program locking the file.

Then run ps -ef | grep pid (pid is the number given above) to tell you
what program is locking it then kill the program.

Jeremy