[linux-audio-user] Distros these days? What a mess!

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 20:50 +0200, Malte Steiner wrote:
> just for information, recent Ubuntu update seems to break Alsa, I can't 
> get jack running anymore, it always claims that the device is already 
> busy. Fortunaly I can get back the last kernel+modules version which works.
> 

This is the expected behavior if a sound server is already using the
device.  JACK requires exclusive access.

What do "fuser /dev/dsp" and "fuser /dev/snd/*" say?

Lee