Dsp
Sometimes you will have two applications trying to access your audio device. Here is an example screenshot of a user trying to run xmms, when something else is accessing the audio:
The culprit can be discovered with lsof assuming your audio device is /dev/dsp like it is on BSD:
$ lsof | grep dsp firefox-b 14905 frank 1w VCHR 30,3 0t0 38 /dev/dsp0.0 firefox-b 14905 frank 1w VCHR 30,3 0t0 38 /dev/dsp0.0 firefox-b 14905 frank 1w VCHR 30,3 0t0 38 /dev/dsp0.0 firefox-b 14905 frank 1w VCHR 30,3 0t0 38 /dev/dsp0.0
as you can see, one of the websites I am viewing with firefox has claimed access to my dsp first. I must now close that tab in firefox, and restart xmms, and all is well.
Stop embedded audio in Firefox
vi ~/.mozilla/firefox/0wt4rci4.default/chrome/userContent.css
and add these lines (creating the file if it doesn't already exist)
/* block embedded sounds */
embed[src*=.mid] { display: none !important }
embed[src*=.mp2] { display: none !important }
embed[src*=.mp3] { display: none !important }
embed[src*=.mp4] { display: none !important }
embed[src*=.wav] { display: none !important }
embed[src*=.wma] { display: none !important }
Stop embedded audio in flash
Not a highly recommended hack, but I opened
vi ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
and did a
/dsp
which found /dev/dsp which I replaced with /dev/xxx in order to stop flash from accessing my /dev/dsp, as it never released it properly.
Once you have audio working, you may want to try listening to an online streaming radio station such as our recommend streaming stations.
