Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to Kill a previous Audio process

[Stefan Brüns]

On Tuesday 07 October 2008 19:30:58 Santi Ortega wrote:
> How to Kill a previous Audio process?
> I obtain this error: audio_alsa_sink[hw:0,0]: Device or resource busy
> And I remember there is a command to do it... but I don't know which!

There are to possibilities in this case:
Either, you can live with a small added latency due to software mixing, then 
you should use "default:0" instead of "hw:0" (given that your distribution 
configures ALSA to use software mixing, which is the case for all major 
distributions), or you _really_ want to access the device exclusively. In 
this case, use fuser:

list programms accessing any pcm device:
        fuser -v /dev/snd/pcmC?D?
kill any programm accessing any pcm device:
        fuser -k /dev/snd/pcmC?D?

Stefan

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